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Approximate Nearest Neighbor with Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH)

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Random Projection The first step in the algorithm is to sample random vectors in the same -dimensional space as input vector. Setting Up Baseline with the k-NN Algorithm With our word embeddings ready, let’s implement a -Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) search. -NN

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Vector Databases 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Vector Search and Indexing

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Last Updated on February 20, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Afaque Umer Originally published on Towards AI. But heres the catch scanning millions of vectors one by one (a brute-force k-Nearest Neighbors or KNN search) is painfully slow. Or how Netflix somehow knows youll love that obscure sci-fi thriller?

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Practical Tips and Tricks for Developers Building RAG Applications

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Last Updated on April 24, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): James Luan Originally published on Towards AI. To demonstrate this concept, I wrote a short demo in just ten lines of Python code using the k-nearest neighbors algorithm (KNN). Vector Search is Not Effortless!