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Representation Learning

Dec 13, 2025 Recommendation Systems 52 min read

Recommendation Systems (5): Embedding and Representation Learning

How modern recommenders learn dense vector representations for users and items: Word2Vec / Item2Vec, Node2Vec, two-tower DSSM and YouTube DNN, negative sampling, FAISS/HNSW serving, and how to evaluate embedding quality. …

Apr 3, 2022 Standalone 26 min read

Graph Neural Networks for Learning Equivariant Representations of Neural Networks

Represent a neural network as a directed graph (neurons as nodes, weights as edges) and use a GNN to produce permutation-equivariant embeddings. The right symmetry unlocks generalisation prediction, network …