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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

Exploring Jina

Jina is a framework that helps you build deep learning search systems on the cloud using state-of-the-art models. Jina is an infrastructure that allows you to focus only on the areas that you are interested in. In this way, you don’t need to be involved in every aspect of building a search engine. This involves everything from pre-processing your data to spinning up microservices if needed. Another good thing about neural search is that you can search for any kind of data regardless of type. Here are some examples of how you can search using different data types:

  • Image-to-image search
  • Text-to-image search
  • Question answering search
  • Audio search

Building your own search engine can be very time-consuming, so one of the core goals of Jina is reducing the time you would need if you were going to build one from scratch. Jina is designed in a layered way that lets you focus only on the specific parts that you need, letting the rest of the infrastructure...