The end of the year is proving crazy busy as usual, but gensim acquired a cool new feature that I just had to blog about. Ben Trahan sent a patch that allows automatic tuning of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) hyperparameters in gensim. This means that an optimal, asymmetric alpha can now be trained directly from your data. Read more on Asymmetric LDA Priors, Christmas Edition…
