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RIP, vector database

397 points · 116 comments · razin

  1. ActorNightly · · focus · HN ↗
    Im not full read up on RAG pipelines, but has anyone ever tried to make the database a neural net itself? I.e get rid of any sort of traditional databases, and then you basically just have some sort of autoencoder?
    1. thefxperson · · focus · HN ↗
      There's been quite a bit of research into this over the past 3-4 years under the name "generative retrieval." The general approach is to use a transformer and treat the weights as the index. You input the query, and then used constrained decoding to generate the document ID.
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