Comment by senderista
2 days ago
Yup, when I was at MSFT 20 years ago they were already productizing vector embedding of documents and queries (LSI).
2 days ago
Yup, when I was at MSFT 20 years ago they were already productizing vector embedding of documents and queries (LSI).
Interesting. Makes one think.
To be clear, LSA[1] is simply applied linear algebra, not ML. I'm sure learned embeddings outperform the simple SVD[2] used in LSA.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition