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Improve throughput and concurrency with HTTP/2

The Vespa HTTP container now accepts HTTP/2 with TLS enabled. Learn how this improves HTTP throughput and efficiency, and how to get started using HTTP/2.

Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 4

This is the fourth blog post in a series of posts where we introduce using pretrained Transformer models for search and document ranking with Vespa.ai.

Build a basic text search application from python with Vespa: Part 2

Evaluate search engine experiments from python.

Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 3

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Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 3

This is the third blog post in a series of posts where we introduce using pretrained Transformer models for search and document ranking with Vespa.ai.

Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 2

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Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 2

This is the second blog post in a series of posts where we introduce using pretrained Transformer models for search and document ranking with Vespa.ai.

Vespa Product Updates, May 2021

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Vespa Product Updates, May 2021

Advances in features and performance include new int8 and bfloat16 tensor cell types, compact tensor feed format, Approximate Nearest Neighbor using Hamming distance, hash-based attribute dictionaries and case-sensitive attribute search...

Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 3

Part 3 - Efficient use of click-through rate via parent-child relationship.

Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 1

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Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Search - part 1

This is the first blog post in a series of posts where we introduce using pretrained Transformer models for search and document ranking with Vespa.ai.

Build sentence/paragraph level QA application from python with Vespa

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Build sentence/paragraph level QA application from python with Vespa

Retrieve paragraph and sentence level information with sparse and dense ranking features.

Vespa Product Updates, March 2021

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Vespa Product Updates, March 2021

Advances in Vespa features and performance last month include mass update/delete in /document/v1/, improved memory usage, OR-to-WeakAnd and better full node protection.

Build a News recommendation app from python with Vespa: Part 2

Part 2 - From news search to news recommendation with embeddings.