Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
Authors: Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Tomas Mikolov
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- The paper explores a simple and efficient baseline for text classification
- FastText, their fast text classifier, is often on par with deep learning classifiers in terms of accuracy while being many orders of magnitude faster for training and evaluation
- Using a standard multicore CPU, they were able to train FastText on over one billion words in less than ten minutes and classify half a million sentences among 312K classes in less than a minute
- This approach offers significant advantages over traditional deep learning methods that require large amounts of data and computing power
- The authors suggest that their method could be useful for applications where speed is critical such as real-time sentiment analysis or spam detection
- FastText can be used to quickly process large volumes of text data with minimal resources required.
Abstract: This paper explores a simple and efficient baseline for text classification. Our experiments show that our fast text classifier fastText is often on par with deep learning classifiers in terms of accuracy, and many orders of magnitude faster for training and evaluation. We can train fastText on more than one billion words in less than ten minutes using a standard multicore~CPU, and classify half a million sentences among~312K classes in less than a minute.
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