Why do we normalize a vector with its with l2 norm is there some intuition behind? Hello I am trying to undestand the message propagation algorithm of GraphSAGE(https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.02216.pdf)
In step 7 there is a division with l2 norm (if I understand the notation correctly ). I think it is some kind of normalization step but is there some intuition behind dividing a vector with its l2-norm ?


Yes, there is an intuition for what's being done here.
Recall the Pythagorean theorem. The squared length is the sum of the individual squared distances. This is how the L2 norm is calculated; it gives the length of the vector in Euclidian space.
Dividing each component by the length makes the length of the result 1. After line 7, every vector is now a unit vector. The magnitude information has been erased; all that is left is the direction.
As another way to picture it: all of the endpoints of the vectors now lie on the unit sphere.
