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Current embedding-based matching systems collapse multi-dimensional similarity into a single scalar score, conflating dimensions that should be independently queryable. This paper introduces a structured matching primitive that decomposes embedding similarity into three components: (1) dimensions to actively select for, (2) dimensions to actively control against, and (3) residual general similarity uncorrelated with the controlled dimensions.

It is well established that embedding spaces encode relational structure as vector arithmetic — from word2vec analogies (Mikolov et al., 2013) through TransE translations (Bordes et al.