https://www.paepper.com/blog/tags/embeddings/ Recent content in Embeddings on Read. Hack. Learn. Repeat. Hugo en <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:20:06 +0200 https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/what-are-embeddings-in-machine-learning/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:20:06 +0200 https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/what-are-embeddings-in-machine-learning/ <p>Every now and then, you need embeddings when training machine learning models. But what exactly is such an embedding and why do we use it?</p> <p>Basically, an embedding is used when we want to map some representation into another dimensional space. Doesn&rsquo;t make things much clearer, does it?</p> <p>So, let&rsquo;s consider an example: we want to train a recommender system on a movie database (typical Netflix use case). We have many movies and information about the ratings of users given to movies.</p>