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How To - Elasticsearch Labs

How To

February 26, 2025

Embeddings and reranking with Alibaba Cloud AI Service

Using Alibaba Cloud AI Service features with Elastic.

Embeddings and reranking with Alibaba Cloud AI Service
Spotify Wrapped part 2: Diving deeper into the data

February 25, 2025

Spotify Wrapped part 2: Diving deeper into the data

We will dive deeper into your Spotify data than ever before and explore connections you didn't even know existed.

Understanding sparse vector embeddings with trained ML models

Understanding sparse vector embeddings with trained ML models

Learn about sparse vector embeddings, understand what they do/mean, and how to implement semantic search with them.

Elasticsearch autocomplete search

February 19, 2025

Elasticsearch autocomplete search

Exploring different approaches to handling autocomplete, from basic to advanced, including search as you type, query time, completion suggester, and index time.

Exploring CLIP alternatives

February 18, 2025

Exploring CLIP alternatives

Analyzing alternatives to the CLIP model for image-to-image, and text-to-image search.

Elasticsearch hybrid search

February 17, 2025

Elasticsearch hybrid search

Learn about hybrid search, the types of hybrid search queries Elasticsearch supports, and how to craft them.

Using Ollama with the Inference API

February 14, 2025

Using Ollama with the Inference API

The Ollama API is compatible with the OpenAI API so it's very easy to integrate Ollama with Elasticsearch.

Unleashing your metadata: Self-querying retrievers with Elasticsearch

February 13, 2025

Unleashing your metadata: Self-querying retrievers with Elasticsearch

Discover how to utilize “self-quering” retrievers with Elasticsearch to increase the relevance of your Semantic search with structured filters.

Are synonyms important in RAG?

February 11, 2025

Are synonyms important in RAG?

Exploring the functionality of Elasticsearch synonyms in a RAG application.

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