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  2. Vector normalization

Glossary

Vector normalization

Scaling a vector to length 1. After it, cosine equals the dot product, which is cheaper to compute.

Where it is explained

  • Embeddings and similarity searchEmbeddings and vector search

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Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Contrastive training
  • Cosine similarity
  • Dot product
  • Embedding model
  • Euclidean distance
  • Semantic search
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