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From text to representations
Understand why words become vectors without equating a vector with human meaning.
Essentials
How it works
An embedding table maps token identifiers to vectors. Subsequent layers transform and combine them with context. The representation of “bank” can therefore depend on surrounding words and the learned objective.
Takeaway
Vector proximity depends on the representation and metric. It may help retrieve documents without proving equivalent meaning or human understanding.
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Scientific sources
- Vaswani et al. · 2017Attention Is All You NeedarXiv v7 · 2023Original publication
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