Building In-house Semantic Search Engine from Scratch — Fast and Accurate — Bloomberg - Semantic search is a data searching technique in which a search query aims to not only find keywords but to determine the intent and contextual meaning of the words a person is using for a search. Semantics refers to the philosophical study of meaning. It’s true that philosophy…

Event-driven microservices communicate with each other via event messages. When business events occur, producers publish them with messages. At the same time, other services consume them through event listeners. Thus, the main benefits of event-driven systems are asynchronous behavior and loosely coupled structures. For example, instead of requesting data when…

Simulate a content personalization scenario with Vowpal Wabbit using contextual bandits to make choices between actions in a given context. INTRODUCTION Recommending relevant and personalised content to users is crucial for media services providers, e-commerce platforms, content based platforms etc. Indeed, effective recommender systems improve the users’ experience and engagement on…

** Paper Study of Alibaba’s SOTA RecSys ** In this blog, I would try to explain some key concepts of BST and what factors in this can be a game-changer. If you are not familiar with transformer-based architecture then I would recommend reading this article: The Illustrated Transformer. Overview The sequential…

Easy way to re-rank search results and personalized recommendations. — This post is in continuation of my previous post “ Semantic Search with S-BERT is all you need” Semantic Search with S-BERT is all you need Building In-house Semantic Search Engine from Scratch — Fast and Accuratemedium.com What we covered in the previous post: Types of search: Asymmetric & Symmetric Dot Product and Cosine Product Based models

Introduction In the process of a model building, overfitting drains out a lot of effort. Diagnosing overfitting in data is sometimes obvious where your training data performance is far better than validation but not always. Especially in a production environment, understanding the root cause of failure becomes hectic and time-consuming. We…

Overview In this post, we will be discussing some quick and short tricks which are very effective and powerful and can save you a lot of time struggling in-text cleansing process. Problems in text pre-processing Making sense out of textual data is a tricky job and dirty text makes it a lot more troublesome. All…