Leo Boystov on Information Retrieval Science - Weaviate Podcast #38
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 38th episode of the Weaviate podcast! This episode features Leo Boystov, an expert in Information Retrieval technology! We discussed a very wide range of topics from an overview of IR methods such as BM25, Neural Bi-Encoder and Cross-Encoder rankers, and a super exciting new work Leo has co-authored on using Large Language Models to generate training data for Neural Ranking models titled "InPars-Light: Cost-Effective Unsupervised Training of Efficient Rankers." We also discussed Leo's work on Non-Metric Space Search, the challenge of long…
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