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Efficient Vector Representation for Documents through Corruption

8 Jul 2017arXiv:1707.02377archive 2025-07-28

Minmin Chen

We present an efficient document representation learning framework, Document Vector through Corruption (Doc2VecC). Doc2VecC represents each document as a simple average of word embeddings. It ensures a representation generated as such captures the semantic meanings of the document during learning. A corruption model is included, which introduces a data-dependent regularization that favors informative or rare words while forcing the embeddings of common and non-discriminative ones to be close to zero. Doc2VecC produces significantly better word embeddings than Word2Vec. We compare Doc2VecC with several state-of-the-art document representation learning algorithms. The simple model architecture introduced by Doc2VecC matches or out-performs the state-of-the-art in generating high-quality document representations for sentiment analysis, document classification as well as semantic relatedness tasks. The simplicity of the model enables training on billions of words per hour on a single machine. At the same time, the model is very efficient in generating representations of unseen documents at test time.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semantic Similarity SICK Doc2VecC MSE 0.3053 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Similarity SICK Doc2VecC Pearson Correlation 0.8381 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Similarity SICK Doc2VecC Spearman Correlation 0.7621 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis IMDb Doc2VecC Accuracy 88.3 #41 of 49 Archive leaderboard report

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