A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

A closed-form autoencoder: PCA encoder + quadratic Ridge decoder. On FiQA it gives 4× compression of mxbai-embed-large-v1 at -0.85 p.p. NDCG@10, +2.73 p.p. over PCA. No SGD, no neural networks.
88 points by timvisee 170 days ago ivanpleshkov.dev 23 comments
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