Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
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Enhancing Search Capabilities with Retrieval and Reranking Layers
The speaker suggests using retrieval mechanisms that extract specific functions, methods, and classes with corresponding doc strings as separate entities for the system. These mechanisms include keyword search, embeddings-based search, and other techniques such as matching file names. The goal of the retrieval layer is to ensure 100% recall while reducing the candidate result set size for further processing. The second layer, known as the reranking layer, aims to elevate the most relevant results to the top after the retrieval stage has narrowed down the results to a smaller set.
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