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word2vec Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling is a Weighted Logistic PCA

Computation and Language 2017-05-30 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We show that the skip-gram formulation of word2vec trained with negative sampling is equivalent to a weighted logistic PCA. This connection allows us to better understand the objective, compare it to other word embedding methods, and extend it to higher dimensional models.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.09755,
  title  = {word2vec Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling is a Weighted Logistic PCA},
  author = {Andrew J. Landgraf and Jeremy Bellay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.09755},
  year   = {2017}
}
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