How Models Learn

Nearest neighbours (of a word)

The items whose vectors are most similar to a given item’s vector.

Flattening throws a lot away (the people map keeps about a third of the spread), so pick a word and the lines show its five nearest neighbours measured in all 300 dimensions.
From Words as vectors, step “A map of meaning”

See it in action

Try nearest neighbours (of a word) hands-on in the lesson Words as vectors, part of the AI fundamentals course.

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