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AI · October 21, 2017

fastText

Efficient text classification and representation learning

fastText launched on October 21, 2017 with 8 votes, #1,130 of 3,169 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

Library for efficient text classification and representation learning

FastText is an open-source, free, lightweight library that allows users to learn text representations and text classifiers. It works on standard, generic hardware. Models can later be reduced in size to even fit on mobile devices. A. Joulin, E. Grave, P. Bojanowski, M. Douze, H. Jegou, T.from fasttext.cc

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