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Hugging Face Trending Papers June 28, 2026

Anisotropy Decides Cosine vs. Rank Metrics for Text Embeddings

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The standard way to compare two text embeddings is cosine similarity. Scattered studies report that a different metric does better, but never pin down the geometric condition that decides when, or why.

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