Semanlink - Distributional semantics AND Unsupervised machine learning

> We find that the softmax layer (the output layer) causes significant inefficiency due to the large vocabulary size.
Therefore, we redesign the learning objectiv.
> Specifically, the proposed approach bypasses the softmax layer by performing language modeling with dimension reduction, and allows the models to leverage pre-trained word embeddings.
Our framework reduces the time spent on the output layer to a negligible level, eliminates almost all the trainable parameters of the softmax layer and performs language modeling without truncating the vocabulary.
When applied to ELMo, our method achieves a 4 times speedup and eliminates 80% trainable parameters while achieving competitive performance on downstream tasks.

**decouples learning contexts and words**

> Instead of using
a softmax layer to predict the distribution of the
missing word, we utilize and extend the SEMFIT
layer (Kumar and Tsvetkov, 2018) to **predict the
embedding of the missing word**.

2019-03-02 About

The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and co. (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning) – Jay Alammar

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2018-12-03 About

[1811.05370] Unsupervised Transfer Learning for Spoken Language Understanding in Intelligent Agents

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2018-11-20 About

iliaschalkidis/ELMo-keras: Re-implementation of ELMo on Keras

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2018-11-14 About

Can Global Semantic Context Improve Neural Language Models? - Apple (2018)

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2018-09-27 About

Linear algebraic structure of word meanings – Off the convex path

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2018-09-20 About

AI Can Recognize Images, But Text Has Been Tricky—Until Now | WIRED

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2018-09-08 About

[1601.03764] Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy

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> Here it is shown that multiple word senses reside
in linear superposition within the word
embedding and simple sparse coding can recover
vectors that approximately capture the
senses

> Each extracted word sense is accompanied by one of about  2000 “discourse atoms” that gives a succinct description of which other words co-occur with that word sense.

> The success of the approach is mathematically explained using a variant of
the random walk on discourses model

("random walk": a generative model for language). Under the assumptions of this model,  there
exists a linear relationship between the vector of a
word w and the vectors of the words in its contexts (It is not the average of the words in w's context, but in a given corpus the matrix of the linear relationship does not depend on w. It can be estimated, and so we can compute the embedding of a word from the contexts it belongs to)

[Related blog post](/doc/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.offconvex.org%2F2016%2F07%2F10%2Fembeddingspolysemy%2F)

2018-08-28 About

[1806.06259] Evaluation of sentence embeddings in downstream and linguistic probing tasks

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