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fastText

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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

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@article{yaltirakli,
  title   = "fastText",
  author  = "Yaltirakli, Gokberk",
  journal = "gkbrk.com",
  year    = "2025",
  url     = "https://www.gkbrk.com/fasttext"
}

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Gokberk Yaltirakli, "fastText", October, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.gkbrk.com/fasttext. [Accessed Oct. 30, 2025].

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Yaltirakli, G. (2025, October 30). fastText. https://www.gkbrk.com/fasttext

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