Embeddings & Vector SearchNils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab)

Reimers and Gurevych present Sentence-BERT

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Presented Sentence-BERT — cut the time to find the most similar pair among 10,000 sentences from about 65 hours to about 5 seconds

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Turned sentence embeddings into a searchable asset

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084

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