Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr

Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2cbT5CCEM&list=PLq-odUc2x7i8jHpa6PHGzmxfAPEz-c-on&index=5

00:00 Intro

00:50 Alessandro's take on the bbuzz'24 conference

01:25 What and value of hybrid search

04:55 Explainability of vector search results to users

09:27 Explainability of vector search results to search engineers

13:12 State of hybrid search in Apache Solr

14:32 What's in Reciprocal Rank Fusion beyond round-robin?

18:30 Open source for LLMs

22:48 How we should approach this issue in business and research

26:12 How to maintain the status of an open-source LLM / system

30:06 Prompt engineering (hope and determinism)

34:03 DSpy

35:16 What's next in Solr