An Architecture for Parallel Topic Models

Summary: Parallel topic-model sampling on a workstation cluster; scales to hundreds of millions of documents and thousands of topics. Distributed key-value state sharing removes separate sync phases; disk, CPU, and network work in parallel; extendable to n-grams and hierarchies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h89c3c8f4364d8e22
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.0001776101
Overall Rank: 464 | 96.90%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920931

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Authors

1. Alexander Smola (Australian National University; Yahoo)
2. Shravan Narayanamurthy (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{smola_vldb10,
        title = {{An Architecture for Parallel Topic Models}},
        author = {Smola, Alexander and Narayanamurthy, Shravan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {703--710},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920931},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920931},
        year = {2010}
}

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1,009	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012518224
1,169	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011690039
2,196	Heterogeneity-aware Distributed Parameter Servers	2017	SIGMOD	8.8807201e-05
2,407	Declarative Recursive Computation on an RDBMS or, Why You Should Use a Database For Distributed Machine Learning	2019	VLDB	8.4928721e-05
2,637	NOMAD: Non-locking, stOchastic Multi-machine algorithm for Asynchronous and Decentralized matrix completion	2014	VLDB	8.1763935e-05
2,737	FlexPS: Flexible Parallelism Control in Parameter Server Architecture	2018	VLDB	8.060868e-05
3,677	TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing	2019	VLDB	7.0870914e-05
3,799	Large-Scale Machine Learning at Twitter	2012	SIGMOD	6.9933489e-05
3,873	Husky: Towards a More Efficient and Expressive Distributed Computing Framework	2016	VLDB	6.9389809e-05
4,046	Towards High-Throughput Gibbs Sampling at Scale: A Study across Storage Managers	2013	SIGMOD	6.8182709e-05
5,648	NuPS: A Parameter Server for Machine Learning with Non-Uniform Parameter Access	2022	SIGMOD	6.0350483e-05
6,655	Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Parameter Servers	2020	VLDB	5.7036819e-05
7,860	ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.422643e-05
8,511	Just Move It! Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Action	2021	VLDB	5.3116274e-05
12,345	LDA*: A Robust and Large-scale Topic Modeling System	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,347	Runtime Optimization of Join Location in Parallel Data Management Systems	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,366	Toward High-Performance Distributed Stream Processing via Approximate Fault Tolerance	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,379	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

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