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176 points nxa | 2 comments | | HN request time: 1.111s | source

I've been playing with embeddings and wanted to try out what results the embedding layer will produce based on just word-by-word input and addition / subtraction, beyond what many videos / papers mention (like the obvious king-man+woman=queen). So I built something that doesn't just give the first answer, but ranks the matches based on distance / cosine symmetry. I polished it a bit so that others can try it out, too.

For now, I only have nouns (and some proper nouns) in the dataset, and pick the most common interpretation among the homographs. Also, it's case sensitive.

1. jryb ◴[] No.43995568[source]
Just inverting the canonical example fails: queen - woman + man = drone
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2. x3y1 ◴[] No.43995946[source]
This kind of makes sense for bees.