embedding

Etymology

noun

1. The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
2. (mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure).
3. (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.
   word embeddings
   “A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author. 2017-04-13, Hannah Devlin, quoting Arvind Narayanan, “AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

verb

1. present participle and gerund of embed