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Features and feature stores

What goes into the model and how it gets there: user, item, context and cross features; encoding numbers, categories and text; batch, streaming and request-time freshness; the feature store's offline and online halves; training–serving skew and how logging served features cures it; point-in-time joins; and embeddings, their size and their versioning.

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What’s inside

  • 1. Kinds of features
  • 2. Encoding
  • 3. Freshness: three tiers
  • 4. The feature store
  • 5. Training–serving skew
  • 6. Point-in-time correctness
  • 7. Embeddings
  • What goes wrong
  • Drills
  • Check yourself