embedding — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

2. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).

3. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.

4. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).

5. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).

6. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.

7. A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.

   Examples

   word embeddings

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   “A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author.

   A few years ago, Dr. [Alexander] Huth noticed that particular pieces of these maps — so-called context embeddings, which capture the semantic features, or meanings, of phrases — could be used to predict how the brain lights up in response to language.