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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

Learning Jina’s Basics

In the previous chapter, we learned about neural search, and now we can start thinking about how to work with it and the steps we’ll need to take to implement our own search engine. However, as we saw in previous chapters, in order to implement an end-to-end search solution, time and effort will be needed to gather all of the resources required. This is where Jina can help as it will take care of many of the necessary tasks, letting you focus on the design of your implementation.

In this chapter, you will understand the core concepts of Jina: Documents, DocumentArrays, Executors, and Flow. You will see each of them in detail and understand their overall design and how they connect.

We’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Exploring Jina
  • Documents
  • DocumentArrays
  • Executors
  • Flow

By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding of idioms in Jina, what they are, and how to use them...