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  2. Semantic search

Glossary

Semantic search

Finding items by meaning, using the closeness of embeddings, instead of by exact words. It can miss exact identifiers and rare terms.

Where it is explained

  • Embeddings and similarity searchEmbeddings and vector search

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Contrastive training
  • Cosine similarity
  • Dot product
  • Embedding model
  • Euclidean distance
  • Vector normalization
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