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Where this one gets misread
Embeddings make comparison possible and discard nuance in the process. Two passages can sit close together and mean quite different things, which is what produces retrieval that is confidently irrelevant.
Glossary
What is an embedding?
An embedding is a numeric representation of content used to compare meaning. It makes retrieval possible without keeping every nuance or promising relevance.
Updated 21 Aug 2026
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Questions to ask
Ask for a worked example on your own material, and the evidence needed to reproduce it.
- Which model produced them?
- What happens when that model changes, and does it force a full re-index?
- How is the loss checked?
- Are your domain terms represented at all?
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How Marella uses the term
We use “Embedding” only where a product mechanism or an evaluation method backs it up, and we say when the behaviour depends on how a deployment is configured.
- Backed by a product mechanism or an evaluation method
- Deployment differences flagged
What this page does not prove
- B1A definition is not a claim about how the product performs.
- B2Vendor implementations vary.
- B3Test the term against a representative workflow.
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Test the claim on your documents
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