Dense Retrieval
If you like applying Dense Retrieval, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
Information Retrieval and Search - CodeBeginnerNew
Hybrid Search RAG for a HR-Policy Assistant
You receive 1,800 pages of policy documents (Markdown) and 150 labeled question-answer pairs with the gold source policy IDs. Build a hybrid retrieval pipeline: BM25 + dense emb…
- Hybrid Search
- Bm25
- Dense Retrieval
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Research Roadmap for Meridian DSP's Bid-Matching Pipeline
Using the VP of Machine Learning's context memo (vp-brief) and the pipeline case file (pipeline-case-file) to ground every recommendation in Meridian's actual system, assemble a…
- Information Retrieval
- Learning To Rank
- Research Synthesis
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Hybrid Search for an Enterprise RAG Knowledge Base
You receive 50,000 internal documents (anonymized policy memos, regulation excerpts, internal FAQs) plus a 300-query benchmark with binary relevance labels for the top-10 return…
- Hybrid Search
- Bm25
- Dense Retrieval
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