Answers.Body: <p>Continuous vector simply means that each value of the vector is allowed to be a real number, in contrast of integer values used in other categorical encoding techniques like one-hot encoding (only 0 and 1) or class-value mapping (a different integer per class).</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Oh, ok. I was wondering if that was the case, since that's the most obvious option, but I wasn't sure if it was referring to something else in the context of machine learning. Thanks for the clarification.
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Body: <p>I have seen the concept of a &quot;continuous vector&quot; described in the context of embeddings. For instance, <a href="https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/54045/49134">this answer</a> to a question on embeddings in the context of deep learning. I obviously know what a vector is, but it isn't clear to me what a <em>continuous</em> vector is as a mathematical object. What is a &quot;continuous vector&quot;?</p>
  
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ThreadText: # What is a "continuous vector"?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-07-04)
  
  I have seen the concept of a "continuous vector" described in the context of embeddings. For instance, [this answer](https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/54045/49134) to a question on embeddings in the context of deep learning. I obviously know what a vector is, but it isn't clear to me what a *continuous* vector is as a mathematical object. What is a "continuous vector"?
  
  **Tags:** machine-learning, math, embeddings, vectors, vector-space
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-07-04. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  Continuous vector simply means that each value of the vector is allowed to be a real number, in contrast of integer values used in other categorical encoding techniques like one-hot encoding (only 0 and 1) or class-value mapping (a different integer per class).
  
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  > **username_0**: Oh, ok. I was wondering if that was the case, since that's the most obvious option, but I wasn't sure if it was referring to something else in the context of machine learning. Thanks for the clarification.  
  
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