towardrelated
Towardrelated is a concept in information retrieval and machine learning that describes a family of methods designed to bias representations, traversal, or decision-making toward semantically related items. Rather than treating relatedness as a passive feature, towardrelated techniques encode a directional objective: make items that are related to a query more accessible, with vectors or paths that move toward related concepts in embedding spaces or graphs.
The term is used across embedding-based retrieval, graph-based navigation, and reranking pipelines. In practice, towardrelated methods
Origins and usage: towardrelated emerged in the 2020s in discussions of how to improve relevance by explicitly
Applications and limitations: used in search engines, e-commerce recommender systems, and content organization. Benefits include improved