Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?

@inproceedings{steck-2024-cosinesimilarity, author = {Harald Steck and Chaitanya Ekanadham and Nathan Kallus}, editor = {Tat-Seng Chua and Chong-Wah Ngo and Roy Ka-Wei Lee and Ravi Kumar and Hady Wirawan Lauw}, title = {{Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?}}, booktitle = {{Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024}}, pages = {887--890}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2024}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651526}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651526} }