Yusuf Sarıgöz - AI Research Engineer, Qdrant - Getting to know your data with metric learning

Topics:
00:00 Intro
01:03 Yusuf's background
03:00 Multimodal search in tech and humans
08:53 CLIP: discovering hidden semantics
13:02 Where to start to apply metric learning in practice. AutoEncoder architecture included!
19:00 Unpacking it further: what is metric learning and the difference with deep metric learning?
28:50 How Deep Learning allowed us to transition from pixels to meaning in the images
32:05 Increasing efficiency: vector compression and quantization aspects
34:25 Yusuf gives a practical use-case with Conversational AI of where metric learning can prove to be useful. And tools!
40:59 A few words on how the podcast is made :) Yusuf's explanation of how Gmail smart reply feature works internally
51:19 Metric learning helps us learn the best vector representation for the given task
52:16 Metric learning shines in data scarce regimes. Positive impact on the planet
58:30 Yusuf's motivation to work in the space of vector search, Qdrant, deep learning and metric learning -- the question of Why
1:05:02 Announcements from Yusuf

Show notes:

[saurabhrai]

Really great stuff! Amazing work Dmitry & Yusuf!
😎👌

[academicconnorshorten]

Really nice podcast! Thanks Dmitry and Yusuf!