The idea comes from a Google project looking at paths that traverse similar paintings.
This reminds that I'd meaning for a while to do something similar with words in an embedding space. Word embeddings and image embeddings are, more or less, equivalent; so the same sorts of methods will work on both. There are--and will continue to be!--lots of interesting ways to bring strategies from convoluational image representations to language models, and vice versa. At first I though I could just drop Lincoln's code onto a word2vec model, but the paths it finds tend to oscillate around in the high dimensional space more than I'd like. So instead I coded up a new, divide and conquer strategy using the Google News corpus. Here's how it works.
