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How does this compare to word2vec or fasttext?

• yorwba 8y ago
  word2vec and fasttext are specialized tools for creating word embeddings, this is a more generalist library. It's more comparable to PyText, AllenNLP or Flair, the main difference appearing to be that the other three use PyTorch, not Tensorflow.
  • ___cs____ 8y ago
    with the recent change for TF 2.0. If you would design something similar, will you use TF or Pytorch? What I am trying to ask here is, Is TF 2.0 is comparable to Pytorch when it comes to ease of use?
    • m0zg 8y ago
      Probably not. It has "imperative" mode, but it also drags in quite a bit of API baggage that PyTorch just doesn't have. It's not that PyTorch is ideal, but its main advantage is it "feels like NumPy". Google also has a library that "feels like NumPy". In fact it kind of _is_ NumPy with hardware acceleration, but it seems to be in very early stages. I heard from insiders that there are only 2 people working on the project, if that. The name of the project is JAX: https://github.com/google/jax https://github.com/google/jax. It's arguably a lower level framework on top of which something like PyTorch could be built.