Difference between Fasttext .vec and .bin file
问题 I recently downloaded fasttext pretrained model for english. I got two files: wiki.en.vec wiki.en.bin I am not sure what is the difference between the two files? 回答1: The .vec files contain only the aggregated word vectors, in plain-text. The .bin files in addition contain the model parameters, and crucially, the vectors for all the n-grams. So if you want to encode words you did not train with using those n-grams (FastText's famous "subword information"), you need to find an API that can