[HN Gopher] SPLADE for Sparse Vector Search Explained
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       SPLADE for Sparse Vector Search Explained
        
       Author : gk1
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2023-02-22 13:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.pinecone.io)
        
       | moab wrote:
       | I am not sure what algorithmic "secret sauce" pinecone is
       | implementing beyond being a wrapper around FAISS, but I have got
       | to give it to James that he is doing god's work in helping people
       | understand ANNS and how to apply it.
        
         | gk1 wrote:
         | You might be surprised to learn there's no Faiss inside
         | Pinecone. All the indexes are proprietary and have features you
         | won't find in Faiss, such as metadata filtering, real-time
         | index updates, and horizontal/vertical scaling. Oh and of
         | course sparse-dense hybrid indexing, which went live today.
        
           | moab wrote:
           | Do you plan to publish about what is being implemented soon /
           | support ANN Benchmarks or BigANN Benchmarks?
        
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