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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.

Vespa Newsletter, April 2024

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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.

Perspectives on R in RAG

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

Scaling vector search using Cohere binary embeddings and Vespa

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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 Singaporean government deploys state of the art semantic search

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

Announcing Vespa Long-Context ColBERT

Announcing long-context ColBERT, giving it larger context for scoring and simplifying long-document RAG applications.