The Illustrated Word2vec
Hello HN,<p>Author here. I wrote this blog post attempting to visually explain the mechanics of word2vec's skipgram with negative sampling algorithm (SGNS). It's motivated by:<p>1- The need to develop more visual language around embedding algorithms.<p>2- The need for a gentle on-ramp to SGNS for people who are using it for recommender systems. A use-case I find very interesting (there are links in the post to such applications)<p>I'm hoping it could also be useful if you wanted to explain to someone new to the field the value of vector representations of things. Hope you enjoy it. All feedback is appreciated!