Benjamin Trent
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Benjamin Trent

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Adding passage vector search to Lucene
Vector DatabaseLucene

Adding passage vector search to Lucene

Here's how to add passage vectors to Lucene, the benefits of doing so and how existing Lucene structures can be used to create an efficient retrieval experience.

Benjamin Trent

Making Elasticsearch and Lucene the best vector database: up to 8x faster and 32x efficient
Vector DatabaseGenerative AI

Making Elasticsearch and Lucene the best vector database: up to 8x faster and 32x efficient

Recent features bring significant performance gains to Elasticsearch and Lucene vector database.

Mayya Sharipova

Benjamin Trent

Jim Ferenczi

Scalar Quantization Optimized for Vector Databases
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.

Thomas Veasey

Benjamin Trent

Understanding Int4 scalar quantization in Lucene
LuceneML Research

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.

Benjamin Trent

Thomas Veasey

Introducing kNN Query: An expert way to do kNN search
Vector DatabaseHow To

Introducing kNN Query: An expert way to do kNN search

Explore how the kNN query in Elasticsearch can be used and how it differs from top-level kNN search, including examples.

Mayya Sharipova

Benjamin Trent

Bringing Maximum-Inner-Product into Lucene
Lucene

Bringing Maximum-Inner-Product into Lucene

How we brought maximum-inner-product into Lucene

Benjamin Trent

Scalar quantization 101
LuceneML Research

Scalar quantization 101

Understand what scalar quantization is, how it works and its benefits. This guide also covers the math behind quantization and examples.

Benjamin Trent

Understanding scalar quantization in Lucene
LuceneML Research

Understanding scalar quantization in Lucene

Explore how Elastic introduced scalar quantization into Lucene, including automatic byte quantization, quantization per segment & performance insights.

Benjamin Trent