Embedding In Ai

A technique used in AI to convert categorical variables into a numerical form for use in machine learning algorithms, improving model performance by capturing the underlying relationships between categories.

Embedding In Ai

Areas of application

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Recommendation Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • Social Network Analysis
  • E-commerce & Advertising
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Data Mining
  • Bioinformatics

Example

For instance, an embedding of a categorical variable like ‘color’ could map ‘red’ to the vector (0.5, 0.3, 0.2), while mapping ‘blue’ to the vector (-0.7, -0.4, 0.1).

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