In industrial recommendation systems, the shift towards Generative Retrieval (GR) Traditional embedding-based nearest neighbor search is being replaced by large language models (LLMs). These models represent objects Semantic ID (SID)—discrete …
retrieval
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Generative AI
Perplexity just released PPLX-Embed: new SOTA Qwen3 bidirectional embedding model for web-scale retrieval tasks
confusion continues pplx-embedA collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative …
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AI Tools
RAG vs Context Stuffing: Why selective retrieval is more efficient and reliable than dumping all data into the prompt
Large context windows have dramatically increased how much information modern language models can process in a single prompt. With models capable of handling hundreds of thousands or even millions of …
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Generative AI
(Tutorial) Building a Visual Document Retrieval Pipeline with Collateral and Late Interaction Scoring
import subprocess, sys, os, json, hashlib def pip(cmd): subprocess.check_call((sys.executable, “-m”, “pip”) + cmd) pip((“uninstall”, “-y”, “pillow”, “PIL”, “torchaudio”, “colpali-engine”)) pip((“install”, “-q”, “–upgrade”, “pip”)) pip((“install”, “-q”, “pillow<12”, “torchaudio==2.8.0”)) pip((“install”, “-q”, “colpali-engine”, …
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Generative AI
How to Build a Matryoshka-Optimized Sentence Embedding Model for Ultra-Fast Retrieval with 64-Dimension Truncation
In this tutorial, we fine-tune a Sentence-Transformers embedding model using Matryoshka Representation Learning so that the initial dimensions of the vector carry the most useful semantic signals. We train with …
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AI News
How to Build a Production-Grade Agent AI System with Hybrid Retrieval, Provenance-First Citation, Repair Loops, and Episodic Memory
In this tutorial, we build an ultra-advanced agentic AI workflow that behaves like a production-grade research and reasoning system rather than a single quick call. We asynchronously ingest real web …
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AI Tools
How to Build a Self-Assessing Agent AI System with LlamaIndex and OpenAI Using Retrieval, Tool Usage, and Automated Quality Check
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI workflow using LlamaIndex and OpenAI models. We focus on designing a reliable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent that can reason on evidence, …
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Author(s): Ayyub Nainiya Originally published on Towards AI. RAG is not a recovery problem, it is a system design problem. The sooner you start treating it as one, the sooner …
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Machine Learning
Beyond vector search: building an adaptive retrieval router for agentic AI systems.
Author(s): abi Originally published on Towards AI. A practical guide to making recovery a learnable decision layer with code, architecture, and production trade-offs. Vector search works great for “one question, …
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Generative AI
Meta AI Open-Sourced Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV): Audiovisual encoder powering SAM audio and large-scale multimodal retrieval
Meta Researchers Introduce Perception Encoder Audiovisual, PEAVAs a new family of encoders for joint audio and video understanding. The model learns aligned audio, video and text representations in a single …