The lasso is used to determine which edges are present in a topic graph. The original R code was written by David M. Blei and co-authors and is available together with the C code for fitting the CTM.
build_graph(x, lambda, and = TRUE)
Returns an adjacency matrix for the topics versus topics graph.
Object of class "CTM"
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Numeric in \([0,1]\) indicating the relative bound on the L1-norm of the parameters.
Logical; if TRUE
the graph is computed by taking the
intersection of the neighbors, otherwise the union is determined.
David M. Blei, modified by Bettina Gruen.
Blei D.M., Lafferty J.D. (2007). A Correlated Topic Model of Science. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 1(1), 17--35.