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Thanos Papaoikonomou

Senior ML Engineer

Author’s articles

Improve search results by calibrating model scoring in Elasticsearch

December 23, 2024

Improve search results by calibrating model scoring in Elasticsearch

Learn how to leverage annotated data to calibrate semantic model scoring for better search results

Exploring depth in a 'retrieve-and-rerank' pipeline

December 5, 2024

Exploring depth in a 'retrieve-and-rerank' pipeline

Select an optimal re-ranking depth for your model and dataset.

Introducing Elastic Rerank: Elastic's new semantic re-ranker model

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.

What is semantic reranking and how to use it?

What is semantic reranking and how to use it?

Learn about the trade-offs using semantic reranking in search and RAG pipelines.

Evaluating search relevance part 2 - Phi-3 as relevance judge

September 19, 2024

Evaluating search relevance part 2 - Phi-3 as relevance judge

Using the Phi-3 language model as a search relevance judge, with tips & techniques to improve the agreement with human-generated annotation.

Evaluating search relevance part 1 - The BEIR benchmark

July 16, 2024

Evaluating search relevance part 1 - The BEIR benchmark

Learn to evaluate your search system in the context of better understanding the BEIR benchmark, with tips & techniques to improve your search evaluation processes.

Evaluating scalar quantization in Elasticsearch

May 3, 2024

Evaluating scalar quantization in Elasticsearch

Learn how scalar quantization can be used to reduce the memory footprint of vector embeddings in Elasticsearch through an experiment.

RAG evaluation metrics: A journey through metrics

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.

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