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title: Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails
description: Google has introduced RETVec, a new multilingual text vectorizer, to improve Gmail’s ability to identify spam and malicious emails. The project, named Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer, is designed to resist character-level manipulations and enhance content detection.
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# Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails

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 Nathan Zych

November 30, 2023

Google has launched a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec to enhance Gmail’s ability to detect spam and malicious emails. RETVec, which stands for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer, is designed to withstand character-level manipulations and improve detection of harmful content.

According to the project’s description, RETVec is trained to be resilient against various manipulation techniques, including insertion, deletion, typos, homoglyphs, and LEET substitution.

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