why sort when calculating cooccur?

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Software in C and data files for the popular GloVe model for distributed word representations, a.k.a. word vectors or embeddings

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why sort when calculating cooccur? #38

Closed PengFoo closed 8 years ago

PengFoo commented 8 years ago

i noticed that there are several qsort in the cooccur.c, while next step is shuffling the cooccur. i wonder what the sort code is used to.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I think this just establishes a canonical ordering for convenience. I've been a little slow to reply as I can't be 100% certain this is the case :). Sorting is not mentioned in the paper.