Stefan Webb
Developer Advocate, Zilliz
San Francisco, California, United States
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Stefan Webb is a Developer Advocate at Zilliz, where he advocates for the open-source vector database, Milvus. Prior to this, he spent three years in the industry as an Applied ML Researcher at Twitter and Meta, collaborating with product teams to tackle their most complex challenges.
Stefan holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and has published papers at prestigious machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML. He is passionate about Generative AI and is eager to leverage his deep technical expertise to contribute to the open-source community.
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Multimodal Search with Open-Source Tools
A recent and exciting development in the world of Generative AI has been the use of language to understand images, video, and sound. One example is multi-modal retrieval, which is the process of using one modality, like text, to search another modality, like images. It is not only useful for search engines across media types, but also for grounding LLMs in factual data and reducing hallucinations. In this talk, I explain how to build a simple but performant multi-modal retrieval pipeline using completely open-source tools and models: the vector database Milvus and HuggingFace libraries for modeling and data. I discuss techniques to use multimodal retrieval most effectively and increase recall, as well as some interesting and diverse industry applications.
Stefan Webb
Developer Advocate, Zilliz
San Francisco, California, United States
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