How computers learn to measure similarity — a simple guide
Every photo, song, or shopping item needs a way to be compared to others.
Picking that way by hand is hard, so researchers teach machines to find the best way instead.
This idea is about learning how to measure distance and similarity between things, from images to text, and it helps search, recommendations and sorting.
Many approaches exist, some learn one overall rule, others learn many local rules that fits different cases.
Recent work also shows how to learn from a little labeled examples or from messy data types like counts or bags of words.
There are special methods for more complex items too — like trees or sequences — known as structured data, which are harder but doable.
While progress is fast, open problems remain and new ideas keeps coming; picking right method still needs care and experiments.
If you like how machines find what is similar, this field will surprise you, and maybe inspire new apps and tools.
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