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An embedding is a numerical representation of a complex object.

In an image, each pixel is a dimension but it does not have any meaning in itself - you need to look at the rest of the image to understand that the pixel is part of a cat. Embeddings is a way to represent this meaning. Think about it as a “summary” of a image / document.




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