fastText

fastText is a text classification and representation algorithm from Facebook.

It uses the Hashing trick with n-grams and embeddings.

Comparison to Vowpal Wabbit

• https://nlpers.blogspot.com/2016/08/fast-easy-baseline-text-categorization.html

Useful links

• https://fasttext.cc/
• https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04606
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03651
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastText
• https://amitness.com/posts/fasttext-embeddings

Tags: Natural language processing

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