Lester Solbakken
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- Berlin Buzzwords4 editions2019–2026
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| When better retrieval makes agents worse | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | 2026-06-07 |
Argues that improving retrieval scores can worsen looped agents because hard distractors—plausible but wrong passages like “2022” vs “2026”—steal attention… | ||
| Hybrid search: Greater than the sum of its parts? | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | 2022-06-12 |
Shows that combining BM25 and transformer embeddings in Vespa with an HNSW index and sentence-transformers (miniLM) yields better retrieval than either alone… | ||
| From text search & recommendation to ads & online dating | Berlin Buzzwords 2021 | 2021-06-15 |
Modern ANN libraries lose many relevant results when metadata filters are applied after retrieval; Vespa modifies HNSW to support eligibility lists so ANN… | ||
| Scaling ONNX and TensorFlow model evaluation in search | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | 2019-06-16 |
Vespa evaluates ONNX and TensorFlow models on content nodes so data stays local, not sent over the network, and a benchmark with a ~200k‑parameter neural… | ||
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