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What property does cosine similarity ignore when comparing two embeddings?

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  1. Their angle
  2. Their dimension count
  3. Their magnitudes

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References

  1. Google Machine Learning: Measuring similarity from embeddings developers.google.com/machine-learning/clustering/dnn-clustering/supervised-similarity Checked 2026-10-10.

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