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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
0.00017783871
Overall Rank
464 | 96.89%
DOI
10.14778/1920841.1920931

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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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2,186 Heterogeneity-aware Distributed Parameter Servers 2017 SIGMOD 8.8916253e-05
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2,667 NOMAD: Non-locking, stOchastic Multi-machine algorithm for Asynchronous and Decentralized matrix completion 2014 VLDB 8.151622e-05
2,726 FlexPS: Flexible Parallelism Control in Parameter Server Architecture 2018 VLDB 8.0870349e-05
3,670 TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing 2019 VLDB 7.1097731e-05
3,790 Large-Scale Machine Learning at Twitter 2012 SIGMOD 7.0162259e-05
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4,029 Towards High-Throughput Gibbs Sampling at Scale: A Study across Storage Managers 2013 SIGMOD 6.840359e-05
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6,644 Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Parameter Servers 2020 VLDB 5.7224864e-05
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8,495 Just Move It! Dynamic Parameter Allocation in Action 2021 VLDB 5.3292461e-05
12,302 LDA*: A Robust and Large-scale Topic Modeling System 2017 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,304 Runtime Optimization of Join Location in Parallel Data Management Systems 2017 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,323 Toward High-Performance Distributed Stream Processing via Approximate Fault Tolerance 2017 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,336 Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections 2016 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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