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Re:You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers by bunderbunder on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:05PM (#41928821)
This was ages ago, in the pre-transformer era, and I can't find the link anymore. But once upon a time I read a great paper that demonstrated that most of the performance differences being reported among popular embedding models of the time were better explained by text cleaning and tokenization than they were by the embedding model itself.

In other words, if you train a model using word2vec's preprocessing and GloVe's algorithm, the result looks more like a "standard-issue" word2vec model than a "standard-issue" GloVe model.

Re:You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers by authorfly on Thursday October 24, 2024 @06:04AM (#41933994)
Yes those models were sensitive to the preprocessing, far more than transformers.

However Word2Vec and GloVe were fundamentally different, when used as designed GloVe worked better pretty uniformly.