Retrieval and search · MLD-0059
Approximate nearest-neighbor search
Finding near neighbors faster by permitting some retrieval errors.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Search millions of embeddings with a latency budget.
Original caveat
ANN also abbreviates artificial neural network.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Data · Retrieval · Inference · Evaluation.
Tags: ML · NLP · SLM · LLM · IR.
Aliases: ANN search.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Faiss documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks ↗ · Consulted
- Sentence Transformers documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗