In the world of AI-powered search, relevance is everything. Go beyond the limits of pure keyword or vector search in Blend Hybrid Search, an intermediate course for developers and ML engineers. You will learn to build a state-of-the-art search system by combining the precision of keyword matching (like BM25) with the semantic power of dense vectors. This course provides a complete, hands-on framework for optimizing search performance using open-source tools as our implementation example.

Blend Hybrid Search

Blend Hybrid Search
This course is part of Vector DB Foundations, Embeddings & Search Algorithms Specialization

Instructor: LearningMate
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Implement a hybrid search system, tuning keyword and vector scores to optimize search relevance using the NDCG metric.
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