word2vec as Implicit PMI Matrix Factorization

the result that connects neural embeddings back to count matrices — the same algebra, reached by gradient descent

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Neural Word Embedding as Implicit Matrix Factorization in NLP

Skip-gram with negative sampling (SGNS), a neural word embedding method, is theoretically shown to implicitly perform matrix factorization: it factorizes a word-context matrix whose entries are the p…