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Cosine similarity

Cosine similarity normalizes a dot product by both vector norms. It compares direction rather than raw magnitude, but its relevance still depends on how the embedding space was trained.

\cos(\theta)=\frac{x\cdot y}{\lVert x\rVert\lVert y\rVert}

Overview. Cosine similarity normalizes a dot product by both vector norms.

Context. It compares direction rather than raw magnitude, but its relevance still depends on how the embedding space was trained.

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