Robust Gram embeddings

Abstract

Word embedding models learn vectorial word representations that can be used in a variety of NLP applications. When training data is scarce, these models risk losing their generalization abilities due to the complexity of the models and the overfitting to finite data. We propose a regularized embedding formulation, called Robust Gram (RG), which penalizes overfitting by suppressing the disparity between target and context embeddings. Our experimental analysis shows that the RG model trained on small datasets generalizes better compared to alternatives, is more robust to variations in the training set, and correlates well to human similarities in a set of word similarity tasks.