https://www.fernandoux.com/tags/vectors/Recent content in Vectors on Fernando RuizHugoen-ushttps://www.fernandoux.com/en/wiki/ai/embeddings/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.fernandoux.com/en/wiki/ai/embeddings/<div class="info-panel"> <div class="info-header"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined info-panel-icon">info</span> <span class="info-panel-label">Quick Definition</span> </div> <div class="info-content"> An <strong>embedding</strong> is a numerical representation of an item, such as a text, an image or a user, as a vector (a list of numbers). It is designed so that items with similar meaning sit close to each other in that numerical space. </div> </div> <h2 id="what-is-an-embedding">What is an embedding?</h2> <p>An embedding turns something complex into a list of numbers. The list is learned from data: a model adjusts its values so that items appearing in similar contexts receive nearby vectors. It is the idea John Rupert Firth summed up in 1957: a word is characterized by the company it keeps.</p>