AI Glossary Term

What is Encoder?

Definition

The component of a model that transforms input into latent representations.

Related terms

Attention Mechanism

A model component that dynamically focuses on relevant parts of an input when producing an output.

The process of splitting text into tokens for model input.

A model that encodes queries and documents into separate vectors so they can be compared quickly at scale.

Embedding Model

A model specialized for converting data into vectors used for semantic search, clustering, and retrieval.

Chain-of-Thought

A reasoning style where an AI model decomposes a problem into intermediate steps.

A task where a model assigns an input to one or more predefined categories.

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