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Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by projectorlochsa on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:22PM (#14396625)
How does fasttext compare to vowpal wabbit?
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Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by skystrife on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:40PM (#14397452)
Basically the same [1,2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/751178795323908096

[2]: https://nlpers.blogspot.com/2016/08/fast-easy-baseline-text-...

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Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by gerenuk on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:32PM (#14398408)
Vowpal wabbit is approx. 4-8x faster than gensim but the accuracy will be less compared to gensim.
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