word2vec Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling is a Weighted Logistic PCA

05/27/2017

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by   Andrew J. Landgraf, et al.

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We show that the skip-gram formulation of word2vec trained with negative sampling is equivalent to a weighted logistic PCA. This connection allows us to better understand the objective, compare it to other word embedding methods, and extend it to higher dimensional models.