embedding

== English == === Etymology === From embed +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === === Noun === embedding (plural embeddings) The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. (topology) A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain). (differential topology) An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain. (field theory, Galois theory) A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective). (mathematical analysis) A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion). (category theory) An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial. (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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === embedding present participle and gerund of embed === Further reading === Word embedding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia