Personalized Relevance with VLMs and Sparse Vectors

Hosted by Piotr Kobziakowski and Trey Grainger

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AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents
Trey Grainger and Doug Turnbull
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What you'll learn

Intro to Sparse Vectors and Tensors

Discover sparse vectors and tensors for efficient data handling in AI systems.

VLMs for Visual Features

Use Vision-Language Models to extract features from images with human-like quality.

Sparse Personalization

Leverage sparse tensors for tailored user experiences in search.

Why this topic matters

In today's data explosion, delivering personalized search results at scale is crucial. This talk introduces sparse tensors for compact representations, shows how VLMs mimic human visual processing to pull rich features from images, & demonstrates sparse tensors for hyper-personalized search & recommendations. Learn how to boost engagement and conversion through these modern retrieval techniques.

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Piotr Kobziakowski

AI Search Engineer specializing in search, analytics & personalization

Piotr Kobziakowski is an AI Search Engineer specializing in search, analytics. He has designed and optimized large‑scale search and recommendation systems for high‑traffic platforms. He is working extensively with modern search stack Vespa and previously Elasticsearch. His experience spans across relevance modeling, ranking, experimentation, data analytics and data‑driven product improvements, merging engineering and business goals.

As an instructor, Piotr focuses on making search, AI, and personalization practical and accessible.

Trey Grainger

Founder @ Searchkernel, Author of "AI-Powered Search"

Trey is lead author of the book AI-Powered Search and is the founder of Searchkernel, a software company building the next generation of AI-powered search. He is an advisor to several startups and adjunct professor of computer science at Furman University. He previously served as CTO of Presearch, a decentralized web search engine, and as chief algorithms officer and SVP of engineering at Lucidworks, an search company whose search technology powers hundreds of the world’s leading organizations.


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AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents course.

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