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Representing relationships with numbers

Learned rows, similarity, shares and weighted mixing.

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What you’ll learn

  1. A vector is a list of numbers

    Read a small labeled numeric representation.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  2. An embedding is a learned representation

    Explain why a token ID is mapped to a numeric vector.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  3. Nearness can make comparison useful

    Interpret closeness in an illustrative embedding map.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  4. The axes are not usually named ideas

    Recognize limits of a two-dimensional embedding illustration.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  5. Context can change the intended meaning

    Identify which surrounding words disambiguate a token.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  6. A score is a degree of match

    Compare supplied numerical match scores without treating them as truth probabilities.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  7. Turn scores into shares

    Interpret normalized nonnegative weights that add to one.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  8. Representations can improve through training

    Identify an embedding as part of a learned system.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  9. Mix information in unequal amounts

    Predict which value contributes most to a weighted combination.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  10. Read a relationship map

    Interpret a toy embedding map, distinguish a lookup ID from its vector, and predict the dominant contribution in a weighted mix.

    About 6 minutes · Open activity