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plural embeddings
The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another. examples
(mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure). examples
(machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used. quotations examples
“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author.
2017 April 13, Hannah Devlin, quoting Arvind Narayanan, “AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals”, in The Guardian
A few years ago, Dr. [Alexander] Huth noticed that particular pieces of these maps — so-called context embeddings, which capture the semantic features, or meanings, of phrases — could be used to predict how the brain lights up in response to language.
2023 May 1, Oliver Whang, “A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2023-05-17
present participle and gerund of embed examples