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fastText

240 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Piotr Bojanowski et al. in Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

fastText embeddings exploit subword information to construct word embeddings. Representations are learnt of character n-grams, and words represented as the sum of the n-gram vectors. This extends the word2vec type models with subword information. This helps the embeddings understand suffixes and prefixes. Once a word is represented using character n-grams, a skipgram model is trained to learn the embeddings.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 240, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 214 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Word Embeddings89
Text Classification38
General Classification28
Sentence28
text-classification27
Sentiment Analysis24
Classification17
Named Entity Recognition17
named-entity-recognition17
Named Entity Recognition (NER)16
Language Modeling12
Language Modelling12
Word Similarity11
Deep Learning9
POS9
POS Tagging8
Question Answering8
BIG-bench Machine Learning7
Clustering7
Information Retrieval7

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with fastText: 2016 to 2025, peak 54 54 0 2016: 2 papers 2016 2017: 12 papers 2017 2018: 13 papers 2018 2019: 41 papers 2019 2020: 54 papers 2020 2021: 45 papers 2021 2022: 20 papers 2022 2023: 19 papers 2023 2024: 25 papers 2024 2025: 9 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (240 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

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