The invention provides a word vector training method and apparatus, and belongs to the technical field of machine learning. The word vector training method comprises the steps of obtaining a newly added vocabulary library, wherein vocabularies in the newly added vocabulary library and vocabularies in an old vocabulary library form a new vocabulary library, and the vocabularies in the old vocabulary library correspond to old word vectors; performing initialization processing on the vocabularies in the new vocabulary library, thereby enabling the word vectors of the vocabularies, belonging to the old vocabulary library, in the new vocabulary library to be the old word vectors, and enabling the word vectors of the vocabularies, belonging to the newly added vocabulary library, in the new vocabulary library to be random word vectors; and updating the word vectors of the vocabularies in the new vocabulary library according to a first Huffman tree corresponding to the new vocabulary library and a second Huffman tree corresponding to the old vocabulary library respectively. According to the word vector training method and apparatus provided by the invention, the training efficiency of the word vectors is improved.