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Re:Parallelizing Word2Vec in Multi-Core and Many-Core Archit... by robrenaud on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:27PM (#13120464)
That just sounds like a poorly tuned algorithm/learning rate in the single threaded case. Certainly you can emulate the parallel algorithm sequentially if you wanted.
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Re:Parallelizing Word2Vec in Multi-Core and Many-Core Archit... by utopcell on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @12:16AM (#13120623)
True, you could definitely emulate it by shuffling the input, but that's not what is being done unfortunately.
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