Debunking myths of vector search and LLMs with Leo Boytsov

00:00 Intro

01:31 Leo's story

09:59 SPLADE: single model to solve both dense and sparse?

21:06 DeepImpact

29:58 NMSLIB: what are non-metric spaces

34:21 How HNSW and NMSLIB joined forces

41:11 Why FAISS did not choose NMSLIB's algorithm

43:36 Serendipity of discovery and the creation of industries

47:06 Vector Search: intellectually rewarding, professionally undervalued

52:37 Why RDBMS Still Struggles with Scalable Vector and Free-Text Search

1:00:16 Leo's recent favorite papers

• Leo Boytsov on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonidboytsov/ and X: https://x.com/srchvrs
• Leo Boytsov’s paper list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=I79y2i4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Lots of papers and other material from Leo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzWErcOXIKk