Improving text classification with vectors of reduced precision

06/20/2017

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by   Krzysztof Wróbel, et al.

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This paper presents the analysis of the impact of a floating-point number precision reduction on the quality of text classification. The precision reduction of the vectors representing the data (e.g. TF-IDF representation in our case) allows for a decrease of computing time and memory footprint on dedicated hardware platforms. The impact of precision reduction on the classification quality was performed on 5 corpora, using 4 different classifiers. Also, dimensionality reduction was taken into account. Results indicate that the precision reduction improves classification accuracy for most cases (up to 25 bits gives the best scores and ensures that the results will not be worse than with the full floating-point representation.