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Does anyone know of a maintained alternative to fasttext? It is mentioned here for language identification, but clicking through to the GitHub project, it looks

Does anyone know of a maintained alternative to fasttext? It is mentioned here for language identification, but clicking through to the GitHub project, it looks to be recently archived. I usually use a BERT model for text classification these days, but would like to have an alternative that it less CPU-heavy like fasttext at hand for high-volume use cases.

mhuffman 2y ago
fasttext appears to be up and fine.[0] with fairly recent activity.[1] If you are looking for something similar, word2vec maybe? [0] https://fasttext.cc/ https://fasttext.cc/ [1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText
- infecto 2y ago
  "This repository has been archived by the owner on Mar 19, 2024. It is now read-only." I would assume that since it has been archived that no future work will happen on it.
  - yorwba 2y ago
    The list of forks https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/forks https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/forks has explosion.ai (makers of spaCy)'s floret https://github.com/explosion/floret https://github.com/explosion/floret as the most starred one.
- ds_opseeker 2y ago
  fasttext failed for me with numpy2.0. reverted to numpy 1.26.4 and it was fine.