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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
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Part 2: Introduction to Jina Fundamentals
8
Part 3: How to Use Jina for Neural Search

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed the fundamental tasks to build a neural search system, which are the indexing and querying pipelines. We looked into both of them and introduced the most challenging part, such as encoding and indexing.

You should have basic knowledge of the basic building blocks of indexing and querying, such as preprocessing, encoding, and indexing. You should also notice that the quality of the search results highly depends on the encoder, while the scalability of the neural search system highly depends on the indexer and the most popular algorithms behind the indexer.

As you need to build a production-ready search system, you will realize that purely relying on the basic building blocks is not enough. As a search system is complex to implement, it is always needed to design and add your own building blocks to the indexing and querying pipeline, in order to bring better search results.

In the next chapter, we will start to introduce Jina, the...