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Deep learning languages: a key fundamental shift from probabilities to weights?

Other Quantitative Biology 2019-08-05 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

Recent successes in language modeling, notably with deep learning methods, coincide with a shift from probabilistic to weighted representations. We raise here the question of the importance of this evolution, in the light of the practical limitations of a classical and simple probabilistic modeling approach for the classification of protein sequences and in relation to the need for principled methods to learn non-probabilistic models.

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@article{arxiv.1908.00785,
  title  = {Deep learning languages: a key fundamental shift from probabilities to weights?},
  author = {François Coste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00785},
  year   = {2019}
}
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