Thanos Papaoikonomou

Thanos Papaoikonomou

Senior ML Engineer

Articles by Thanos Papaoikonomou

Improve search results by calibrating model scoring in Elasticsearch

Learn how to leverage annotated data to calibrate semantic model scoring for better search results

Quentin Herreros

Exploring depth in a 'retrieve-and-rerank' pipeline

Select an optimal re-ranking depth for your model and dataset.

Thanos Papaoikonomou

Introducing Elastic Rerank: Elastic's new semantic re-ranker model

Learn about how Elastic's new re-ranker model was trained and how it performs.

Thomas Veasey

What is semantic reranking and how to use it?

Introducing the concept of semantic reranking. Learn about the trade-offs using semantic reranking in search and RAG pipelines.

Thomas Veasey

Evaluating search relevance part 2 - Phi-3 as relevance judge

Using the Phi-3 language model as a search relevance judge, with tips & techniques to improve the agreement with human-generated annotation.

Thanos Papaoikonomou

Evaluating search relevance part 1 - The BEIR benchmark

Learn to evaluate your search system in the context of better understanding the BEIR benchmark, with tips & techniques to improve your search evaluation processes.

Thanos Papaoikonomou

Evaluating scalar quantization in Elasticsearch

Learn how scalar quantization can be used to reduce the memory footprint of vector embeddings in Elasticsearch through an experiment.

RAG evaluation metrics: A journey through metrics

Explore RAG evaluation metrics like BLEU score, ROUGE score, PPL, BARTScore, and more. Discover how Elastic is evaluating RAG with UniEval.

Quentin Herreros