Compute the cosine similarity between two objects A and B

Compute the cosine similarity between two objects A and B

cos_similarity(A, B)

Arguments

A

first object
B

second object

Value

Return the cosine similarity value

Author

Marie Bellier, Massimo Finini, Meri Likoska, Vania Rodrigues Telo Ramos, Xavier Renger

Examples


#setting seed to always have the same results
set.seed(10)

#creating a matrix with random numbers in between 1 to 10 from a uniform distribution
x <- matrix(runif(10)*10, ncol=5, nrow=4, byrow=FALSE)

#computing the cosine similarity between
cos_similarity(x[1,], x[3,])
#> [1] 0.8406276