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Cosine similarity

What does “Cosine similarity” mean?

Cosine similarity: A comparison based on the angle between vectors, independent of their magnitudes.

Cosine similarity visual guide: A comparison based on the angle between vectors, independent of their magnitudes.
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What is an example of “Cosine similarity”?

A search engine compares the direction of a query embedding with document embeddings.

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