{"id":9604,"date":"2025-07-10T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/?post_type=lexicon&#038;p=9604"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:47:56","slug":"embedding","status":"publish","type":"lexicon","link":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/lexicon\/embedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine wanting to explain the meaning of words to a computer. Instead of giving it definitions, you assign every word a set of numbers, a kind of coordinates. Words with similar meanings, such as &#8220;dog&#8221; and &#8220;puppy&#8221;, get similar coordinates and end up close together in an imaginary space. Words like &#8220;dog&#8221; and &#8220;car&#8221;, by contrast, have very different coordinates and lie far apart. This set of numbers, or coordinates, is what is called an <strong>embedding<\/strong>. It lets the computer grasp the relationships between words better and work with their meaning, even though it does not understand language as a human does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <strong>embedding<\/strong>, in machine learning, is a numerical representation of categorical data in the form of a dense floating-point vector. Unlike sparse representations such as one-hot encoding, an embedding captures the semantic relationships between individual categories. Vectors of similar concepts lie closer together in this multi-dimensional space. The words &#8220;king&#8221; and &#8220;queen&#8221;, for example, will have similar vector representations. The technique allows neural networks to process and generalise information from discrete inputs \u2013 words in text, items in a catalogue \u2013 more efficiently. Embeddings are typically learned during the model&#8217;s training process on large amounts of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-9604","lexicon","type-lexicon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexicon\/9604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexicon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lexicon"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}