
Also known as materialization, serialisation, materialisation, serializing, serialize, data serialization, object serialization
thumb|upright=1.35|Flow diagram In computing, serialization (or serialisation, also referred to as pickling in Python) is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored (e.g. files in secondary storage devices, data buffers in primary storage devices) or transmitted (e.g. data streams over computer networks) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer environment). When the resulting series of bits is reread according to the serialization format, it can be used to create a semantically identical clone of the original object. For many
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).