Can we take of benefit of using transfer learning while training a word2vec models? I am looking to find a pre-trained weights of an already trained models like Google News data etc. I found it hard to train a new model with enough amount (10 GB etc) of data for myself. So, I want to take benefit from transfer learning in which I would able to get pre-trained layer weights and retrain those weights on my domain specific words. So, definitely it will take relatively less time in training. Any sort of help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance :)
Yes, you can take benefit of pre-trained models. Most famous one being the GoogleNewsData trained model which you can find here.

Pre-trained word and phrase vectors https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XkCwpI5KDYNlNUTTlSS21pQmM/edit?usp=sharing

You can then load the vectors in binary format in your model using gensim as shown below.

&gt;&gt;&gt; model = Word2Vec.load_word2vec_format('/tmp/vectors.txt', binary=False)  # C text format
&gt;&gt;&gt; model = Word2Vec.load_word2vec_format('/tmp/vectors.bin', binary=True)  # C binary format


Here is a different pre-built model for English Wikipedia:

https://github.com/idio/wiki2vec/raw/master/torrents/enwiki-gensim-word2vec-1000-nostem-10cbow.torrent

Source: https://github.com/idio/wiki2vec/

Using a prebuilt model

Get python 2.7
Install gensim: pip install gensim
uncompress downloaded model: tar -xvf model.tar.gz
Load model in gensim:
from gensim.models import Word2Vec
model = Word2Vec.load("path/to/word2vec/en.model")
model.similarity('woman', 'man')


You can also use Stanford NLP Glove 


http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/GloVe


Here is a great compilation of pre-trained word2vec models.


https://github.com/3Top/word2vec-api#where-to-get-a-pretrained-models


Some additional pre-trained models:


http://www.zuccon.net/ntlm.html
https://code.google.com/archive/p/word2vec/


More on gensim and code here:  https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/models/word2vec.html

Quora forum with a similar questions 


https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-pre-trained-models-of-word2vec-and-sentence2vec-trained-on-Wikipedia-or-other-large-text-corpus
https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-some-pre-trained-word-vectors-for-natural-language-processing-understanding