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Re:Show HN: HuggingFace – Fast tokenization library for deep... by rococode on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:25PM (#22038795)
They don't use huggingface, but some of the modern approaches for topic modeling use variational auto-encoders, see:

Open-SESAME (2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09528 / https://github.com/swabhs/open-sesame

VAMPIRE (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02242 / https://github.com/allenai/vampire

Re:Show HN: HuggingFace – Fast tokenization library for deep... by samcodes on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:38PM (#22041615)
Thanks! I hadn’t seen VAMPIRE! So stoked to see a new approach to topic modeling. SVD etc are very much a local max