OpenSource Connections Courses

Exploring Dense Vector Search at Scale

Explore dense vector search at scale, balancing cost, speed, and quality. Learn reusable methods for testing index and query performance, gaining insights for integrating vector search into existing pipelines.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CLAP With Me: Step-by-Step Semantic Search on Audio Sources

Explore CLAP for semantic search on audio data. Learn to build an application generating CLAP embeddings, indexing to Opensearch, and implementing audio-based semantic queries.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vector (Hybrid) Search Live A/B Test Results in E-commerce Sector

Explore significant A/B test results of Vector (Hybrid) Search in e-commerce, revealing revenue increases and improved user engagement. Learn about embedding creation and result blending techniques.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Apache Lucene: From Text Indexing to Artificial Intelligence - Haystack US 2024

Explore Apache Lucene's 22-year journey from text indexing to AI integration, covering its impact on search technologies and recent innovations in vector indexing and search.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Gen AI Search and Summarization Testing Using Human SME Techniques

Explore a framework for testing generative AI search results and summaries using subject matter experts, including methodology, metrics, and potential applications.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

All Vector Search is Hybrid Search

Explore the benefits and challenges of hybrid search systems, combining vector search with traditional methods for improved accuracy and real-time updates in search applications.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning to Rank at Reddit: A Project Retrospective

Explore Reddit's journey in implementing Learning to Rank for site-wide search, including challenges faced, lessons learned, and strategies for scaling to high query volumes.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI in Search in 2023

Explore AI's impact on search in 2023, covering challenges, models, and future trends in information retrieval and conversational systems.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Can Search Results be Fair? - Haystack On Tour Austin

Explore fairness in search results with NIST Scientist Emeritus Ellen Voorhees, discussing challenges and potential solutions in information retrieval systems.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Evaluating Embedding-Based Retrieval Beyond Historical Search Results

Explore methods to evaluate embedding-based retrieval quality using organizational knowledge, improving relevance and expanding recall for e-commerce search beyond historical data.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Practical Approach for Few Shot Learning with SetFit - Haystack EU 2023

Explore SetFit for few-shot learning in classification and ranking, with a focus on legal research applications. Discover its potential to outperform GPT-3 in label-scarce settings.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Combining Inverted and ANN Indexes for Efficient Hybrid Search at Scale

Explore challenges and solutions for integrating inverted and ANN indexes in search engines, optimizing hybrid search systems for efficiency and scalability.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Vector Databases to Scale Multimodal Embeddings, Retrieval and Generation

Explore scaling multimodal embeddings, retrieval, and generation using vector databases. Learn cross-modal search techniques and guide large language models with real-time retrieval.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Art of Hypothesis-Driven Development of ML-Powered Search - Haystack EU 2023

Explore ML-powered search development through hypothesis-driven approaches. Learn from Uzum Market's journey in building a large-scale search system for e-commerce, focusing on metrics, evaluation, and AB testing.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Alternative Queries to Mitigate Zero Results

Explore strategies for mitigating zero search results using alternative queries, including query relaxation and term substitution based on Large Language Models and query term statistics.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video