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0 pointsmkl1y ago0 comments

You can apply statistical techniques to anything you want. Embeddings are just vectors of numbers which capture some meaning, so statistical analysis of them will work fine.

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throw109201y ago

Don't most statistical techniques rely on specific structure in the spaces containing the objects they operate on, in order to be useful?

mklOP1y ago

Embeddings have structure, or they wouldn't be very useful. E.g. cosine similarity works because (many) embeddings are designed to support it.

throw109201y ago

Oh, that should have been obvious. Thank you for explaining.

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0 pointsmkl1y ago0 comments

You can apply statistical techniques to anything you want. Embeddings are just vectors of numbers which capture some meaning, so statistical analysis of them will work fine.

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throw109201y ago

Don't most statistical techniques rely on specific structure in the spaces containing the objects they operate on, in order to be useful?

mklOP1y ago

Embeddings have structure, or they wouldn't be very useful. E.g. cosine similarity works because (many) embeddings are designed to support it.

throw109201y ago

Oh, that should have been obvious. Thank you for explaining.

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