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babylonhealth / fastText_multilingual

fastText_multilingual

Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages

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Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages

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Observed mentions: 2017-04-21 17:34:09 UTC to 2023-12-23 09:43:34 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Consider using fastText's word vectors. They have a bunch of languages that come pre sorted by frequency and are sufficient for basic word sense. Perhaps use a LLm to automate some of the disambiguation. https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/crawl-vectors.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771292 (6 years ago) Aligning the fastText vectors of 78 languages https://github.com/babylonhealth/fastText_multilingual/blob/...
In Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?
Geoff Hinton refers to thought vectors performing reasoning by analogy using algebra [1] in his Royal Society Lecture. The other widely reported vector algebras in a semantic space were discovered by Mikolov et al when producing ~300 dimensional vectors for a billion word Wikipedia corpus. If one performs vector algebra and ~= is near by cosine distance then using Mikolov's Vectors[3]. King - Man + Woman ~= Queen France - Paris + Gernmany ~= Berlin Surprisingly this works for other modalities, Chintala, Radford & Metz found a latent semantic space in images, that adds vectors for glasses or smiles to peoples faces. [4] With a generative model new images can be created as outlined in this blog post by Soumith [5] Karpathy shows trained nets can be assembled like lego across modalities, slice off the classifier to reveal the rich sema
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ntic 'thought vector' layer of an Imagenet trained Alexnet, plug in a RNN sentence generator using word2vec and ( some over simplification ... ) you get a convincing image captioner [6]. The thought vectors are akin to high level representations of the world and can cross modalities . Text to Images using thought Vectors ( from hnnews discussion [7] ) So the vectors of though are in some way a an AI mentalese or encoding of a symbolic representation of the world derived from the data and can ( again drastic over simplification ) transfer modalities and even between previously unlinked languages [8] Also see Anything2Vec https://gab41.lab41.org/anything2vec-e99ec0dc186 [1] https://youtu.be/izrG86jycck?t=25m58s [2] The paper Geoff Hinton is reffering to : Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks by Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215 [3] Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space by Tomas Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, Jeffrey Dean https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781 [4] Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks Alec Radford, Luke Metz, Soumith Chintala https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06434 [5] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1587249151575490/a-path-to-u... [6] SF Machine Learning: Automated Image Captioning with ConvNets and Recurrent Nets by Karpathy https://youtu.be/ZkY7fAoaNcg?t=38m31s [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12366684 [8] https://github.com/Babylonpartners/fastText_multilingual
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