First time topic modelling, looking for advice.

Several questions:

* General advice / tips for a long time beginner-hobbyist?
* I'm confused within the software landscape of topic modelling.

My uses:

* Interested in analyzing big texts (e.g. books), and comparing them to smaller texts, e.g. articles. Interested in mixing in techniques of aided by LLMs for clearer explanation of relationships.
* Interested in techniques of not just similarity, but also non-linear relationships/correlations. I'm bad at math, and I've seen some papers on this, which I don't …

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