Vector icons

The 24 vector icons, described

Audio embeddingaudio-embed

A speech bubble with an arrow in it — a recording turned into a vector.

Bi-encoderbi-encoder

The lattice with two towers side by side — query and document embedded apart, compared after.

ColBERTcolbert

The lattice with three bars side by side — one vector per token, kept apart.

Vector collectioncollection-vector

The lattice with a box in it — the set of vectors an index holds.

Delete vectordelete-vector

The lattice with a cross in it — a vector taken out of the index.

Dense searchdense-search

Dense search — retrieval by embedding vector rather than by matching words.

Dense vectordense-vector

The lattice with two full lines — a vector with something in every dimension.

Embeddingembedding

A vector embedding — a piece of meaning turned into coordinates a model can compare and search.

Embedding driftembedding-drift

Embedding drift — the same word slowly moving house as its vector shifts over time.

Exploitexploit

An exploit — the particular attack payload that uses a vulnerability to get in.

Hybrid fusehybrid-fuse

Hybrid fuse — keyword and semantic results merged into one ranked list.

Late interactionlate-interaction

The lattice with two points tied together — query and document matched token by token, at the end.

Vector namespacenamespace-vector

The lattice with brackets in it — vectors kept apart by whose they are.

One-hotone-hot

One-hot encoding — a vector of all zeros with a single one marking the category.

Product quantisationproduct-quantisation

The lattice cut into strips — a vector split into parts, each stored as a code.

Quantise vectorquantise-vector

The lattice with a staircase in it — a vector stored in fewer bits.

Query embeddingquery-embed

The lattice with an arrow in it — a question turned into a vector.

Semantic searchsemantic-search

Semantic search — find things by what they mean, using vectors and similarity rather than keywords.

Cosine similaritysimilarity-cosine

The lattice with two rays from one point — how close two vectors point.

Dot productsimilarity-dot

The lattice with a vector and its shadow on the axis — how far one vector reaches along another.

Euclidean distancesimilarity-euclidean

The lattice with two points and the straight line between — how far apart two vectors sit.

Sparse vectorsparse-vector

The lattice with one point over an empty line — a vector that is mostly zeros.

SPLADEsplade

The lattice with a wisp in it — a sparse vector the model learned to expand.

Vector memoryvector-memory

An arrow over a tray — memories stored as vectors and found by nearness.

In code, each is one import — import { AudioEmbed } from "@iconmind/react/icons/audio-embed" — and the same name in Vue, Svelte, Solid, Preact, React Native, Astro, Blade and Flutter.

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