{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8/events","html_url":"https://github.com/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8","id":180855903,"number":8,"title":"Flat topic distributions in author-topic model","user":{"login":"olavurmortensen","id":2675757,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2675757?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen","html_url":"https://github.com/olavurmortensen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olavurmortensen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-10-04T10:21:56Z","updated_at":"2016-10-17T02:25:35Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I tried running the [author-topic model notebook](https://github.com/arongdari/python-topic-model/blob/master/notebook/AuthorTopicModel_example.ipynb). I noticed that the topic distributions of many authors were flat, meaning that all topics were equally likely. See example below.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://i.imgur.com/iVLypL8.png\" width=70% height=70%>\r\n\r\nI did not change the notebook in any way, so I suspect there is some error in the algorithm/code, although I have no inkling of what it might be. Just thought I'd share.\r\n\r\nIs someone else able to reproduce this, or is it just me? Or did I misunderstand, and this is actually expected to happen?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/comments/254098233","html_url":"https://github.com/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8#issuecomment-254098233","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arongdari/python-topic-model/issues/8","id":254098233,"user":{"login":"arongdari","id":5395521,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5395521?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari","html_url":"https://github.com/arongdari","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arongdari/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-10-17T02:25:35Z","updated_at":"2016-10-17T02:25:35Z","body":"Hi,\r\nI cannot reproduce the same result so far.\r\nDid you find that all other others also exhibit the uniform distribution? If that's not the case, the sampler probably assigns zero token to the author. "}}
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