facebookresearch/MUSE

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MUSE is a Python library from Facebook AI Research for creating and aligning multilingual word embeddings, using both supervised (bilingual dictionary) and unsupervised (no parallel data) methods. It also provides fastText embeddings aligned in a common space, large-scale bilingual dictionaries, and evaluation datasets for cross-lingual word similarity and translation retrieval.

Use cases

• align monolingual word embeddings from different languages into a shared space
• train unsupervised cross-lingual embeddings without parallel data
• evaluate word translation and cross-lingual word similarity
• build bilingual dictionaries for training and evaluation
• retrieve sentence translations using aligned embeddings
• run nearest neighbor search over multilingual embeddings with Faiss

When to choose

• you need cross-lingual word embeddings or word translation without parallel corpora
• you want pre-aligned fastText embeddings and bilingual dictionaries for many language pairs
• you are doing NLP research on multilingual representation learning

When to avoid

• you need modern contextual embeddings like multilingual BERT or sentence transformers
• you want a production-ready maintained library - the project is research code with infrequent updates
• you need sentence-level or document-level multilingual embeddings rather than word-level

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nlp machine-learning search-engine machine-learning python word-embeddings multilingual-nlp bilingual-dictionaries cross-lingual faiss research natural-language-processing linux gpu

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