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Improving retrieval with LLM-as-a-judge
How to create your own reusable retrieval evaluation dataset for your data and use it to assess your retrieval system's effectiveness
Vespa Newsletter, May 2024
Advances in Vespa features and performance include improved vector search performance, fuzzy search with prefix match, RAG, and new Pyvespa and embedding features.
Vespa and LLMs
Introducing LLM support in Vespa using both external and local LLMs
Matryoshka 🤝 Binary vectors: Slash vector search costs with Vespa
Announcing Matryoshka (dimension flexibility) and binary quantization in Vespa and how these features slashes costs.

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Vespa Newsletter, April 2024
Advances in Vespa features and performance include a new SPLADE embedder, float16 support for ONNX models, new Cohere guides, and support for using ColBERT with long texts.
Farfetch: Scaling recommendations with Vespa
E-commerce platform Farfetch explains how they use Vespa to scale their online recommendation system
Marqo chooses Vespa
Vector search experts Marqo choose Vespa as their vector database after benchmarking against Milvus, OpenSearch, Weaviate, Redis, and Qdrant.
Migrating to the Vespa Search Engine
In this post, I will detail the journey at Stanby of how we have addressed the challenges faced by our existing search system through migrating to Vespa.

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Perspectives on R in RAG
In this blog post, I share perspectives on the R in RAG.

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Scaling vector search using Cohere binary embeddings and Vespa
Three comprehensive guides to using the Cohere Embed v3 binary embeddings with Vespa.

The Singapore Government Pair Search
The Singaporean government deploys state of the art semantic search
The Singaporean government leverages Vespa to do semantic search in every word ever said in Parliament

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