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Word2Vec

A technique for learning word embeddings that capture semantic relationships (Skip-gram and CBOW models).

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  1. Machine Learning ✓ understood

    Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.

  2. Neural Network ✓ understood

    A computational model inspired by biological neural networks, consisting of interconnected nodes (neurons) organized in layers that process information through weighted connections.

  3. Dataset ✓ understood

    A collection of data examples used for training, validating, or testing machine learning models.

  4. Feature ✓ understood

    A single measurable property of an example, such as a house's floor area or how many links an email contains, used as an input to a model.

  5. Deep Learning ✓ understood

    A subset of machine learning that uses neural networks with multiple layers (deep neural networks) to learn hierarchical representations of data.

  6. Representation Learning ✓ understood

    Learning useful features or representations of data automatically, rather than hand-crafting them.

  7. Embedding ✓ understood

    A list of numbers (a vector) that represents a word, sentence, image or other item, learned so that similar items end up close together.

  8. Word2Vec · you are here ✓ understood

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Language & LLMs Semantic Similarity Measuring how similar two pieces of text are in meaning, often using embedding-based distance metrics. Neural Networks Node Embedding Learning vector representations of graph nodes that capture structural and feature information. Neural Networks Representation Learning Learning useful features or representations of data automatically, rather than hand-crafting them. Language & LLMs Tokenization Splitting text into tokens, usually subword pieces, and mapping each to an integer ID so a language model can process it. Neural Networks Latent Space A compressed, learned representation space where similar data points are close together, used in autoencoders and VAEs.

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A paper that builds on Word2Vec .