---
title: MLCEmbeddingDescriptor
framework: ML Compute
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
platforms: [iOS 14.0+, iPadOS 14.0+, Mac Catalyst 14.0+, macOS 11.0+, tvOS 14.0+]
path: mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor
---

# MLCEmbeddingDescriptor

A configuration object you use to create an embedding layer.

## Declaration

```swift
class MLCEmbeddingDescriptor
```

## Topics

### Creating Embedding Descriptors

- [init(embeddingCount:embeddingDimension:)](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/init(embeddingcount:embeddingdimension:).md)
- [init(embeddingCount:embeddingDimension:paddingIndex:maximumNorm:pNorm:scalesGradientByFrequency:)](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/init(embeddingcount:embeddingdimension:paddingindex:maximumnorm:pnorm:scalesgradientbyfrequency:).md)

### Inspecting Embedding Descriptors

- [embeddingCount](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/embeddingcount-77gxz.md)
- [embeddingDimension](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/embeddingdimension-1u9g.md)
- [paddingIndex](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/paddingindex-pb1e.md)
- [maximumNorm](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/maximumnorm-17u0k.md)
- [pNorm](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/pnorm-8vhw1.md)
- [scalesGradientByFrequency](mlcompute/mlcembeddingdescriptor/scalesgradientbyfrequency.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Creating Embedding Layers

- [init(descriptor:weights:)](mlcompute/mlcembeddinglayer/init(descriptor:weights:).md)