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		wenc on March 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding word vectors Class imbalance is a tricky problem, but it is unrelated to FastText. There is no silver bullet. The best solution is to collect more data to bring the classes to a balance. The second best approach is to try algorithms like SMOTE.

kk58 on March 3, 2018 [–]

SMOTE is for more numerical data.

wenc on March 3, 2018 | [–]

It is a numerical problem underneath. Word vectors are numerical vectors.

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