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Text embeddings are a fundamental component in many NLP tasks, including classification, regression, clustering, and semantic search. However, despite their ubiquitous application, challenges persist in interpreting embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Juri Opitz , Lucas Möller , Andrianos Michail , Sebastian Padó , Simon Clematide

With the growing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and vector databases, private textual data is increasingly processed and stored as numerical embeddings. However, recent studies have proven that such embeddings are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yiyi Chen , Qiongkai Xu , Johannes Bjerva

Recent advancements in language representation learning primarily emphasize language modeling for deriving meaningful representations, often neglecting style-specific considerations. This study addresses this gap by creating generic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Phil Ostheimer , Marius Kloft , Sophie Fellenz

Textual data is often represented as real-numbered embeddings in NLP, particularly with the popularity of large language models (LLMs) and Embeddings as a Service (EaaS). However, storing sensitive information as embeddings can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yiyi Chen , Heather Lent , Johannes Bjerva

Embeddings have become a cornerstone in the functionality of large language models (LLMs) due to their ability to transform text data into rich, dense numerical representations that capture semantic and syntactic properties. These embedding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Tiantian Liu , Hongwei Yao , Feng Lin , Tong Wu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

In this work, we investigate an important task named instruction-following text embedding, which generates dynamic text embeddings that adapt to user instructions, highlighting specific attributes of text. Despite recent advancements,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yingchaojie Feng , Yiqun Sun , Yandong Sun , Minfeng Zhu , Qiang Huang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Wei Chen

Embedding text sequences is a widespread requirement in modern language understanding. Existing approaches focus largely on constant-size representations. This is problematic, as the amount of information contained in text often varies with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Guanghui Qin , Benjamin Van Durme

This paper seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental properties of neural text generations models. The study of artifacts that emerge in machine generated text as a result of modeling choices is a nascent research area.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yi Tay , Dara Bahri , Che Zheng , Clifford Brunk , Donald Metzler , Andrew Tomkins

Text embedding models have emerged as powerful tools for transforming sentences into fixed-sized feature vectors that encapsulate semantic information. While these models are essential for tasks like information retrieval, semantic…

Deep learning techniques have achieved great success in many fields, while at the same time deep learning models are getting more complex and expensive to compute. It severely hinders the wide applications of these models. In order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yongqi Li , Wenjie Li

Text-embedding models often exhibit biases arising from the data on which they are trained. In this paper, we examine a hitherto unexplored bias in text-embeddings: bias arising from the presence of $\textit{names}$ such as persons,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Sahil Manchanda , Pannaga Shivaswamy

Vector embeddings have become ubiquitous tools for many language-related tasks. A leading embedding model is OpenAI's text-ada-002 which can embed approximately 6,000 words into a 1,536-dimensional vector. While powerful, text-ada-002 is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Andrew Kean Gao

We propose a technique for performing deductive qualitative data analysis at scale on text-based data. Using a natural language processing technique known as text embeddings, we create vector-based representations of texts in a…

Deep Learning and Machine Learning based models have become extremely popular in text processing and information retrieval. However, the non-linear structures present inside the networks make these models largely inscrutable. A significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sourav Saha , Debapriyo Majumdar , Mandar Mitra

In this paper, we introduce a novel and simple method for obtaining high-quality text embeddings using only synthetic data and less than 1k training steps. Unlike existing methods that often depend on multi-stage intermediate pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Furu Wei

Text embeddings are commonly evaluated on a small set of datasets from a single task not covering their possible applications to other tasks. It is unclear whether state-of-the-art embeddings on semantic textual similarity (STS) can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Niklas Muennighoff , Nouamane Tazi , Loïc Magne , Nils Reimers

Many use cases require retrieving smaller portions of text, and dense vector-based retrieval systems often perform better with shorter text segments, as the semantics are less likely to be over-compressed in the embeddings. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michael Günther , Isabelle Mohr , Daniel James Williams , Bo Wang , Han Xiao

The increasing prevalence of video clips has sparked growing interest in text-video retrieval. Recent advances focus on establishing a joint embedding space for text and video, relying on consistent embedding representations to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jiamian Wang , Guohao Sun , Pichao Wang , Dongfang Liu , Sohail Dianat , Majid Rabbani , Raghuveer Rao , Zhiqiang Tao

Embedding models are central to dense retrieval, semantic search, and recommendation systems, but their size often makes them impractical to deploy in resource-constrained environments such as browsers or edge devices. While smaller…

We frame embedding inversion as conditional masked diffusion, recovering all tokens in parallel through iterative denoising rather than sequential autoregressive generation. A masked diffusion language model is conditioned on the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Han Xiao