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How do embedding layers scale in very large vocabularies?
Updated May 16, 2026
Short answer
Embeddings scale by compressing sparse categorical data into dense vector spaces.
Deep explanation
Large vocabularies require memory-efficient embedding matrices. Techniques include hashing trick, frequency pruning, and shared embeddings.
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