How to transform a 1d vector of multiple elements to 1 element?

Let's say i have the following 1 dimensional vector of features extracted from an image:

vect=[v1,v2,v3,v4,.....v20];

How can i transform it to a 1 element vector that distinguishes that image?

Answer 1

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