Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
Instructors: Sebastian Witalec
- Intermediate
- 0 Hours 55 Minutes
- 8 Video Lessons
- 6 Code Examples
What you'll learn
Build efficient, practical applications including hybrid and multilingual searches, for diverse industries.
Understand vector databases and use them to develop GenAI applications without needing to train or fine-tune an LLM yourself.
Learn to discern when best to apply a vector database to your application.
About this course
Vector databases play a pivotal role across various fields, such as natural language processing, image recognition, recommender systems and semantic search, and have gained more importance with the growing adoption of LLMs.
These databases are exceptionally valuable as they provide LLMs with access to real-time proprietary data, enabling the development of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications.
At their core, vector databases rely on the use of embeddings to capture the meaning of data and gauge the similarity between different pairs of vectors and sift through extensive datasets, identifying the most similar vectors.
This course will help you gain the knowledge to make informed decisions about when to apply vector databases to your applications. You’ll explore:
- How to use vector databases and LLMs to gain deeper insights into your data.
- Build labs that show how to form embeddings and use several search techniques to find similar embeddings.
- Explore algorithms for fast searches through vast datasets and build applications ranging from RAG to multilingual search.
Who should join?
Anyone who’s interested in understanding and applying vector databases in their applications.
Course Outline
8 Lessons・6 Code ExamplesIntroduction
Video・3 mins
How to Obtain Vector Representations of Data
Video with code examples・11 mins
Search for Similar Vectors
Video with code examples・6 mins
Approximate nearest neighbours
Video with code examples・14 mins
Vector Databases
Video with code examples・7 mins
Sparse, Dense, and Hybrid Search
Video with code examples・6 mins
Application - Multilingual Search
Video with code examples・6 mins
Conclusion
Video・1 min
Instructor
Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
- Intermediate
- 0 Hours 55 Minutes
- 8 Video Lessons
- 6 Code Examples
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