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How does the chain-rule look for the gradient of a loss function?

When we are computing the gradient of the loss function, $L$, of a Word2Vec model, for the context word-embedding, $w_i$, and the target word-embedding, $t$. Where the loss function, $L$, looks like: $...
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Do we use maximum likelihood or cross entropy Loss for training skip-gram model?

In the skip gram model, maximising the likelihood of the context words given the middle word is equivalent to minimising the objective function $J(\theta)$, where $$J(\theta) = -\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^...
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