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Limitations of using precomputed embeddings without an embedding_model ? #9

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@leomignot

Disclaimer: niche use case and not covered by the current tutorial. Perhaps a short footnote would be enough to make users aware of this?

I'm not absolutely certain, but it seems that using precomputed embeddings without providing an embedding_model can limit access to some BERTopic features that need to embed new text.

Examples:

  • transform(new_docs) -> needs to embed the new docs
  • find_topics("query") -> needs to embed the query ?
  • zero-shot topic modeling (zeroshot_topic_list) -> needs to embed the given labels ?
  • some representation models ? KeyBERTInspired / MaximalMarginalRelevance ?

Fairly niche and probably more advanced use case, but perhaps a brief footnote mentioning these limitations could help beginners avoid stumbling into these edge cases?

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