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Could you share what you did with fasttext? It'd be great to see some examples around the amazing tools being open sourced! I read that there are no documentati

• minimaxir 10y ago
  For basic use, you can construct text vectors faster/better than word2vec/doc2vec. The Python package which serves as an API to fasttext (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fasttext/0.7.2 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fasttext/0.7.2 ) is well documented, is constantly being updated, and is easy to use.
  • binarymax 10y ago
    Does/can fastText use GPGPU at all? I use a CUDA cbow word2vec [1] that is really quick, and has served me quite well. Hard to know if switching to something more accurate would be worth giving up the speed :) [1] https://github.com/ChenglongChen/word2vec_cbow https://github.com/ChenglongChen/word2vec_cbow
    • minimaxir 10y ago
      No, fastText is CPU only.
    • riyadparvez 10y ago
      fastText is so fast, you may not need to use the GPU. That was their goal from the very beginning.