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Neural Search - From Prototype to Production with Jina

By : Jina AI, Bo Wang, Cristian Mitroi, Feng Wang, Shubham Saboo, Susana Guzmán
Book Image

Neural Search - From Prototype to Production with Jina

By: Jina AI, Bo Wang, Cristian Mitroi, Feng Wang, Shubham Saboo, Susana Guzmán

Overview of this book

Search is a big and ever-growing part of the tech ecosystem. Traditional search, however, has limitations that are hard to overcome because of the way it is designed. Neural search is a novel approach that uses the power of machine learning to retrieve information using vector embeddings as first-class citizens, opening up new possibilities of improving the results obtained through traditional search. Although neural search is a powerful tool, it is new and finetuning it can be tedious as it requires you to understand the several components on which it relies. Jina fills this gap by providing an infrastructure that reduces the time and complexity involved in creating deep learning–powered search engines. This book will enable you to learn the fundamentals of neural networks for neural search, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as how to use Jina to build a search engine. With the help of step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you'll become well-versed with the basics of neural search and core Jina concepts, and learn to apply this knowledge to build your own search engine. By the end of this deep learning book, you'll be able to make the most of Jina's neural search design patterns to build an end-to-end search solution for any modality.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Neural Search Fundamentals
5
Part 2: Introduction to Jina Fundamentals
8
Part 3: How to Use Jina for Neural Search

Introducing vectors in ML

Text is an important means of recording human knowledge. As of June 2021, the number of web pages indexed by mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing has reached 2.4 billion, and the majority of information is stored as text. How to store this textual information, and even how to efficiently retrieve the required information from the repository, has become a major issue in information retrieval. The first step in solving these problems lies in representing text in a format that is comprehensible to computers.

As network-based information has become increasingly diverse, in addition to text, web pages contain a large amount of multimedia information, such as pictures, music, and video files. These files are more diverse than text in terms of form and content and satisfy users’ needs from different perspectives. How to represent and retrieve these types of information, as well as how to pinpoint the multimodal information needed by users from...