Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev

Key points

• While Jev aims to classify things, it’s easy to dismiss Jev as “just a classifier,” and my own view of Jev has evolved quite a bit over the past few days.1
• Figure 1: Quick overview of the Jev API; more details on that later.1
• Language modeling and classification in the pre-transformer era1
• In today's video, we'll be breaking down how Jev really works under the hood, where it came from, and what other alternatives there are for you to choose from.2

Sources (3)

• [1]Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
  Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka) · Sep 29, 10:50 AM

  The recently released Jev AI model has been quite a cultural phenomenon in technical communities in the past 2 weeks.

  While Jev aims to classify things, it’s easy to dismiss Jev as “just a classifier,” and my own view of Jev has evolved quite a bit over the past few days.

• [2]Decision Models: How Can A Model Be Better Without Generating Words?
  bycloud (YouTube) · Oct 2, 06:56 PM

  In today's video, we'll be breaking down how Jev really works under the hood, where it came from, and what other alternatives there are for you to choose from.

• [3]Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
  Ahead of AI magazine (Sebastian Raschka) · Sep 29, 10:50 AM · same content

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