OpenSource Connections Courses

Relevance Proof in Yelp Search - LLM-Powered Annotations

Discover how Yelp enhances search results using LLM-powered annotations, focusing on review highlights and business information to improve user experience and search relevance at scale.

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

Building a GenZ Search Application with LLMs - Search and AI Integration for Student Learning

Discover how Knowunity leverages LLMs to enhance search functionality for Gen Z students, from AI-powered content summarization to intelligent question generation and knowledge graph construction.

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

Training High Quality Embedding Models for Production Vector Search

Master practical techniques for training and optimizing embedding models for production-ready vector search, covering data quality, loss functions, and efficient updating strategies.

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

Boosting LLM Accuracy with Entity Resolution-based RAG

Discover how Entity Resolution enhances RAG systems for LLMs, improving accuracy when handling structured enterprise data like customer records through real-time unified data processing.

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

Nixiesearch - Building a Serverless Search Engine with Lucene on S3

Explore how Nixiesearch leverages Lucene over S3 to create a simplified, serverless search engine with built-in AI capabilities, including RAG and text+image embeddings for modern search solutions.

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

Exploring Vector Search at Scale with Milvus - Building Billion-Scale Solutions

Explore vector search at billion-scale through Milvus, understanding distributed systems architecture, indexing strategies, and scalability solutions for unstructured data processing.

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

Unlocking Product Search with Machine Learning and LLM Innovations

Explore cutting-edge ML and LLM techniques to revolutionize product search, from query understanding to result re-ranking. Discover how to optimize retrieval quality using innovative approaches in a retail scenario.

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

Building a Multimodal LLM-Based Search Assistant Chatbot for Housing Search - Haystack EU 2024

Explore the development of a multimodal LLM-based chatbot for enhanced housing search, featuring contrastive vision-language models and innovative AI technologies to streamline user experiences in real estate.

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

Evaluating Marketplace Search: User Perception vs. Business Metrics

Explore the balance between precision and recall in e-commerce search, examining user perception, business metrics, and modern techniques like vector search. Learn strategies to optimize search relevance and user experience.

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

Vision Language Models and PDFs: What You See Is What You Search - Haystack EU 2024

Explore ColPali, a novel retrieval model using Vision Language Models to embed entire PDF pages, improving retrieval quality and simplifying extraction processes for complex document formats.

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

LTR Framework - How to Train an Army of Models for Efficient Ranking Experiments

Discover how OLX implemented LTR Framework to automate ranking experiments across multiple countries and categories, enabling rapid testing and accelerating platform growth through improved user relevance.

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

Re-Thinking Re-Ranking - Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Search Systems

Explore innovative re-ranking techniques that improve search efficiency and effectiveness. Learn about alternatives to cascading approaches and their impact on vector search and heavy-weight re-rankers.

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

Leveraging User Behavior Insights to Enhance Search Relevance

Unlock the power of user behavior insights to optimize search relevance. Learn to capture clickstream data, analyze user interactions, and continuously improve search strategies for better user experiences.

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

AI-Powered Search: Navigating the Evolving Lexicon of Information Retrieval - Keynote

Explore the evolving landscape of AI-powered search and information retrieval, examining new concepts and their relationships to traditional techniques in this insightful keynote presentation.

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

Contributing to Apache Solr - Session 1

Learn how to contribute to Apache Solr with guidance from experienced committers. Explore the contribution process, best practices, and ways to get involved in this open-source search engine project.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video