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Many methods have been proposed to find vector representation for words, but most rely on capturing context from the text to find semantic relationships between these vectors. We propose a novel method of using dictionary meanings and image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Harsh Kumar

A classical vector retrieval problem typically considers a \emph{single} query embedding vector as input and retrieves the most similar embedding vectors from a vector database. However, complex reasoning and retrieval tasks frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Allassan Tchangmena A Nken , Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques , Miriam Rateike , Celia Cintas , Skyler Speakman

Given vector representations for individual words, it is necessary to compute vector representations of sentences for many applications in a compositional manner, often using artificial neural networks. Relatively little work has explored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Adly Templeton , Jugal Kalita

Image retrieval relies heavily on the quality of the data modeling and the distance measurement in the feature space. Building on the concept of image manifold, we first propose to represent the feature space of images, learned via neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Haoyu Dong , Ze Wang , Qiang Qiu , Guillermo Sapiro

We propose a neural embedding algorithm called Network Vector, which learns distributed representations of nodes and the entire networks simultaneously. By embedding networks in a low-dimensional space, the algorithm allows us to compare…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Hao Wu , Kristina Lerman

The need to compactly and robustly represent item-attribute relations arises in many important tasks, such as faceted browsing and recommendation systems. A popular machine learning approach for this task denotes that an item has an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shib Dasgupta , Andrew McCallum , Steffen Rendle , Li Zhang

Vector extraction retrieves structured vector geometry from raster images, offering high-fidelity representation and broad applicability. Existing methods, however, are usually tailored to a single vector type (e.g., polygons, polylines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yinglong Yan , Jun Yue , Shaobo Xia , Hanmeng Sun , Tianxu Ying , Chengcheng Wu , Sifan Lan , Min He , Pedram Ghamisi , Leyuan Fang

Performing machine learning on structured data is complicated by the fact that such data does not have vectorial form. Therefore, multiple approaches have emerged to construct vectorial representations of structured data, from kernel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Benjamin Paaßen , Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli , Alessandro Sperduti

Geometric relational embeddings map relational data as geometric objects that combine vector information suitable for machine learning and structured/relational information for structured/relational reasoning, typically in low dimensions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Bo Xiong , Mojtaba Nayyeri , Ming Jin , Yunjie He , Michael Cochez , Shirui Pan , Steffen Staab

Multilingual (or cross-lingual) embeddings represent several languages in a unique vector space. Using a common embedding space enables for a shared semantic between words from different languages. In this paper, we propose to embed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maxime Portaz , Hicham Randrianarivo , Adrien Nivaggioli , Estelle Maudet , Christophe Servan , Sylvain Peyronnet

Document retrieval is one of the best established information retrieval activities since the sixties, pervading all search engines. Its aim is to obtain, from a collection of text documents, those most relevant to a pattern query. Current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Gonzalo Navarro

Classification is a common AI problem, and vector search is a typical solution. This transforms a given body of text into a numerical representation, known as an embedding, and modern improvements to vector search focus on optimising speed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lee Harris

Concepts are used to solve the term-mismatch problem. However, we need an effective similarity measure between concepts. Word embedding presents a promising solution. We present in this study three approaches to build concepts vectors based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Karam Abdulahhad

Real-world information needs require access to structurally diverse knowledge sources, from unstructured text and relational tables to knowledge graphs and property graphs. Existing retrievers, however, operate over one source at a time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jinheon Baek , Soyeong Jeong , Sangwoo Park , Woongyeong Yeo , Minki Kang , Patara Trirat , Heejun Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Selecting a representative vector for a set of vectors is a very common requirement in many algorithmic tasks. Traditionally, the mean or median vector is selected. Ontology classes are sets of homogeneous instance objects that can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Vindula Jayawardana , Dimuthu Lakmal , Nisansa de Silva , Amal Shehan Perera , Keet Sugathadasa , Buddhi Ayesha

Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-following, coding, and more. These new benchmarks push embeddings to work for any…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Orion Weller , Michael Boratko , Iftekhar Naim , Jinhyuk Lee

Many neural nets appear to represent data as linear combinations of "feature vectors." Algorithms for discovering these vectors have seen impressive recent success. However, we argue that this success is incomplete without an understanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Martin Wattenberg , Fernanda B. Viégas

The words of a language reflect the structure of the human mind, allowing us to transmit thoughts between individuals. However, language can represent only a subset of our rich and detailed cognitive architecture. Here, we ask what kinds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Gabriel Grand , Idan Asher Blank , Francisco Pereira , Evelina Fedorenko

Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ilias Azizi , Karima Echihab , Themis Palpanas , Vassilis Christophides

Embedding words in high-dimensional vector spaces has proven valuable in many natural language applications. In this work, we investigate whether similarly-trained embeddings of integers can capture concepts that are useful for mathematical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Maria Ryskina , Kevin Knight