AI engineering glossary · NLP embeddings

What is word2Vec?

Word2Vec: A family of shallow neural-network methods that learn word vectors by predicting words from their neighbours in a large corpus. Its two architectures are skip-gram and continuous bag of words. It showed that simple training on raw text yields vectors capturing meaning.

Level: intermediateTopic: NLP embeddings

Word2Vec: an example

Trained on millions of sentences, Word2Vec places "mumbai" and "delhi" near each other in vector space.

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Where you learn it

Word2Vec is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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