MaartenGr / MaartenGr/BERTopic

Does BERTopic rely on *both* sentence_embeddings and word_embeddings

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Description

When exploring relationships *between* topics (2D visualisations, hierarchy) we need to represent *each topic* as a summary vector (cluster-level embedding).

The BERTopic source code stats

> `topic_embeddings_ (np.ndarray) : The embeddings for each topic. It is calculated by taking the weighted average of word embeddings in a topic based on their c-TF-IDF values.`

This seems to imply BERTopic needs *both* a sentence-level word embedding model and a word-level embedding model.

Is this the case? Where is this specified in the source code please?

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Start by tracing the source-code references to `topic_embeddings_`, then inspect the code paths for topic visualisations and hierarchy generation. Determine whether those paths require both sentence-level and word-level embeddings, and document the supported dependency or embedding requirements once confirmed.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
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3/5
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1-2 days
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Needs clarification
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