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Contrastive and Metric Learning
Contrastive learning trains embeddings by comparison: pull similar (positive) pairs together and push dissimilar (negative) pairs apart, so distance encodes similarity. It powers retrieval embeddings, CLIP's shared text-image space, face recognition, and self-supervised pretraining. Quality hinges on the number and difficulty of negatives. Applied-AI interviews probe it because it is how the embeddings under search, RAG, and recommendation are actually trained, and because 'where do good embeddings come from?' has a concrete answer.
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