--- ## Topics to cover * Evolution of search * Traditional approaches and drawbacks * Vectors search and how it harnesses ML models * Qdrant * Building HNSW index and vector search * Beyond similarity search: * Recommendations * Discovery * Sparse vectors
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--- ## How discovery uses that? ##### Remember Metric Learning? ![bg 80%](./imgs/triplet-loss.png) ---
![bg 95%](./imgs/discovery-context.png) ![bg 90%](./imgs/context-pairs.png) ![bg 90%](./imgs/context-with-target.png) ---
## How multi-modal embeddings look like? ![bg 90%](./imgs/cross-modal-space.png) --- ![bg](./imgs/clip-discovery.png) --- ![bg](./imgs/complex-context-search.png) ---
## Sparse vectors * VS text search * BM25 & TF-IDF * Transformer's attention weights * SPLADE ![bg right:60% 90%](./imgs/sparse-vectors.png) ---
* Navigating search (read vector) space is powerful!
* Thank you!