Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations

Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations

26 Dec 2017 | Tomas Mikolov, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Christian Puhrsch, Armand Joulin
This paper presents advances in pre-training distributed word representations, focusing on improving the quality of word vectors through a combination of known techniques. The authors introduce a new set of pre-trained models that significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art models on various tasks. The key improvements include the use of position-dependent features, phrase representations, and subword information. These techniques are combined in a training pipeline that enhances the quality of word vectors, making them more effective for a wide range of NLP applications. The paper describes the cbow model and several improvements to it, including word subsampling, position-dependent weighting, phrase representations, and subword information. These techniques are implemented to capture richer contextual information and improve the generalization of word representations. The models are trained on large text corpora, including Wikipedia, news datasets, and Common Crawl, with sentence-level de-duplication and preprocessing steps to enhance performance. The results show that the new models achieve high accuracy on tasks such as word analogies, rare word datasets, and question answering. The models outperform existing models like GloVe and demonstrate superior performance in text classification tasks. The pre-trained models are publicly available and can be used by researchers and engineers for various NLP applications. The paper concludes that combining known techniques can significantly improve the quality of pre-trained word representations, making them more effective for a wide range of NLP tasks.This paper presents advances in pre-training distributed word representations, focusing on improving the quality of word vectors through a combination of known techniques. The authors introduce a new set of pre-trained models that significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art models on various tasks. The key improvements include the use of position-dependent features, phrase representations, and subword information. These techniques are combined in a training pipeline that enhances the quality of word vectors, making them more effective for a wide range of NLP applications. The paper describes the cbow model and several improvements to it, including word subsampling, position-dependent weighting, phrase representations, and subword information. These techniques are implemented to capture richer contextual information and improve the generalization of word representations. The models are trained on large text corpora, including Wikipedia, news datasets, and Common Crawl, with sentence-level de-duplication and preprocessing steps to enhance performance. The results show that the new models achieve high accuracy on tasks such as word analogies, rare word datasets, and question answering. The models outperform existing models like GloVe and demonstrate superior performance in text classification tasks. The pre-trained models are publicly available and can be used by researchers and engineers for various NLP applications. The paper concludes that combining known techniques can significantly improve the quality of pre-trained word representations, making them more effective for a wide range of NLP tasks.
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