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Introduction to Embeddings in Large Language Models

Types of Embeddings

There are several types of embeddings used in natural language processing (NLP) models. Each type serves a different purpose, but all share the common goal of representing words as vectors in a high-dimensional space.

Types of Embeddings

  1. Frequency-based embeddings: These embeddings are based on the frequency of words in a corpus. One example is the term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) method, which assigns a weight to each word based on how frequently it appears in a document and how rare it is in the corpus as a whole.

  2. Prediction-based embeddings: These embeddings are based on predicting the context of a word. One example is the Word2Vec model, which represents words as vectors by predicting their context in a given window of text.

  3. Co-occurrence-based embeddings: These embeddings are based on the co-occurrence of words in a corpus. One example is the Global Vectors for Word Representation (GloVe) model, which represents words as vectors by analyzing their co-occurrence with other words in a large corpus.

  4. Contextual embeddings: These embeddings take into account the context in which a word appears. Two examples are the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model and the Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo) model. These models use neural networks to represent words as vectors that capture their meaning in context.

Each type of embedding has its strengths and weaknesses, and choosing the right one for a given task depends on many factors, including the size of the corpus, the complexity of the language, and the specific application.

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