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Re:Introduction to Vector Similarity Search by og_kalu on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:31PM (#36702570)
>Another thing that is not clear to me: Is there query directly fed into e.g. SBERT or should I ask an LLM to transform the query into something more suitable, like turning the question into a proposition?

This not how 99% of embedding models work(though you can train for specific tasks) but as it turns out such a thing is possible and is beneficial.

Instruct tuned embedding model here - https://instructor-embedding.github.io/

Re:Introduction to Vector Similarity Search by pizza on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:44AM (#36754254)
This kind of thing is going to seem so obvious in hindsight in six months once all the sota methods start converge upon similar improvements lol. It’s still so early, I keep telling myself.