From Bag‑of‑Words to Semantic Vectors: Understanding Embeddings and Similarity Search (Part 1)
The article explains how diverse data can be represented as high‑dimensional vectors, describes exact and approximate nearest‑neighbor search, explores vector quantization, product quantization, locality‑sensitive hashing, and HNSW graphs, and analyzes their speed, accuracy, and memory trade‑offs for large‑scale similarity retrieval.
