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Embedding
A dense vector representation of a discrete entity (word, user, product, category). Learned from data such that similar entities are close in vector space. Embeddings reduce dimensionality compared to one-hot encoding and allow the model to generalize. The embedding layer is usually the first layer in models that handle categorical inputs.
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