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Why is hierarchical softmax better for infrequent words, while negative sampling is better for frequent words?
I wonder why hierarchical softmax is better for infrequent words, while negative sampling is better for frequent words, in word2vec's CBOW and skip-gram models. I have read the claim on https://code....
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