Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr

About this episode

Alessandro Benedetti discusses hybrid search and its implications in Apache Solr at the Berlin Buzzwords 2024 conference.

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNB70TbQUBE Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2cbT5CCEM&list=PLq-odUc2x7i8jHpa6PHGzmxfAPEz-c-on&index=5 00:00 Intro 00:50 Alessandro's take on the bbuzz'24 conference 01:25 What and value of hybrid search 04:55 Explainability of vector search results to users 09:27 Explainability of vector search results to search engineers 13:12 State of hybrid search in Apache Solr 14:32 What's in Reciprocal Rank Fusion beyond round-robin? 18:30 Open source for LLMs 22:48 How we should approach this issue in business and research 26:12 How to maintain the status of an open-source LLM / system 30:06 Prompt engineering (hope and determinism) 34:03 DSpy 35:16 What's next in Solr

People in this episode

Host: Dmitry Kan

Guest: Alessandro Benedetti

Topics covered

• Hybrid Search
• Apache Solr
• LLMs
• Explainability
• Open Source
• Prompt Engineering

Keywords

• Hybrid Search
• Apache Solr
• LLMs
• Reciprocal Rank Fusion
• Explainability
• Open Source
• Prompt Engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apache Solr, YouTube

Products: Reciprocal Rank Fusion

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