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December 5, 2024
Exploring depth in a 'retrieve-and-rerank' pipeline
Select an optimal re-ranking depth for your model and dataset.
November 25, 2024
Introducing Elastic Rerank: Elastic's new semantic re-ranker model
Learn about how Elastic's new re-ranker model was trained and how it performs.
October 29, 2024
What is semantic reranking and how to use it?
Learn about the trade-offs using semantic reranking in search and RAG pipelines.
December 1, 2023
RAG evaluation metrics: A journey through metrics
Explore RAG evaluation metrics like BLEU score, ROUGE score, PPL, BARTScore, and more. Discover how Elastic is evaluating RAG with UniEval.
October 17, 2023
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Improved inference performance with ELSER v2
Learn about the improvements we've made to the inference performance of ELSER v2, achieving a 60% to 120% speed increase over ELSER v1.
October 17, 2023
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Optimizing retrieval with ELSER v2
Learn how we are reducing the retrieval costs of the Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) v2.
July 20, 2023
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Hybrid retrieval
In this blog we introduce hybrid retrieval and explore two concrete implementations in Elasticsearch. We explore improving Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder’s performance by combining it with BM25 using Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Weighted Sum of Scores.
July 13, 2023
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Benchmarking passage retrieval
In this blog post, we'll examine benchmark solutions to compare retrieval methods. We use a collection of data sets to benchmark BM25 against two dense models and illustrate the potential gain using fine-tuning strategies with one of those models.
July 13, 2023
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Steps to improve search relevance
In this first blog post, we will list and explain the differences between the primary building blocks available in the Elastic Stack to do information retrieval.