Category: ML Research
Articles tagged ML Research
Scalar quantization optimized for vector databases
Optimizing scalar quantization for the vector database use case allows us to achieve significantly better performance for the same retrieval quality at high compression ratios.
Understanding Int4 scalar quantization in Lucene
This blog explains how int4 quantization works in Lucene, how it lines up, and the benefits of using int4 quantization.
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.
Understanding scalar quantization in Lucene
Explore how Elastic introduced scalar quantization into Lucene, including automatic byte quantization, quantization per segment & performance insights.
Scalar quantization 101
Understand what scalar quantization is, how it works and its benefits. This guide also covers the math behind quantization and examples.
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Optimizing retrieval with ELSER v2
Learn how we are reducing the retrieval costs of the Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) v2.
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Improved inference performance with ELSER v2
Learn about the improvements we've made to the inference performance of ELSER v2, achieving a 60% to 120% speed increase over ELSER v1.
Generative AI architectures with transformers explained from the ground up
Here's how generative AI works from the ground up, including embeddings, transformer-encoder architecture, training/fine-tuning models & more.
Vector search in Elasticsearch: The rationale behind the design
In this blog, you'll learn how vector search has been integrated into Elasticsearch and the trade-offs that we made.
Open-sourcing sysgrok — An AI assistant for analyzing, understanding, and optimizing systems
Sysgrok is an experimental proof-of-concept, intended to demonstrate how LLMs can be used to help SWEs and SREs understand systems, debug issues, and optimize performance.
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Introducing Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder, our new retrieval model
Learn about the Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder (ELSER), its retrieval performance, architecture, and training process.
