Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
In clustering algorithms, the metric used to determine how alike (how similar) any two examples are.
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A retail recommender team uses cosine similarity as the similarity measure between user and product embeddings in its candidate generator.
A search team uses dot-product similarity as the similarity measure in its retrieval index for efficient nearest-neighbor lookup.
A help-desk team uses an embedding-based similarity measure to retrieve past tickets similar to a new one for resolution suggestions.
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