Cohere Embed V3: Innovations in Content Quality and Compressed Embeddings
Qdrant - Vector Database & Search Engine via YouTube
Overview
Explore state-of-the-art embedding models for 100+ languages in this technical talk by Nils Reimers, Director of Machine Learning at Cohere. Dive deep into two groundbreaking innovations: content quality assessment that prioritizes informative content retrieval, particularly valuable for noisy data collections, and compressed embeddings that optimize vector database operations at scale. Learn about the technical intricacies of training models for these properties, implementation strategies in vector database setups, and practical applications in semantic search. Gain insights from Reimers' extensive experience, including his work on sentence transformers, multilingual embedding models, domain adaptation, and contributions to benchmarks like BEIR and MTEB. Master concepts including model limitations, preference training, binarization, compression-aware training, product quantization, reinforcement learning from humans, relative similarity, and integration with LangChain.
Syllabus
Intro
Previous Models
Content Quality
Limitations
Training
Preference
Compression
Binarization
Compression training
Product quantization
Compression aware training
Content quality vs search quality
Reinforcement learning from humans
Relative similarity
Langchain
Taught by
Qdrant - Vector Database & Search Engine