Further Reading

Foundation Papers

• Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs (Malkov & Yashunin, 2016): HNSW algorithm
• Product quantization for nearest neighbor search (Jégou et al., 2011): Product Quantization
• Approximate nearest neighbor algorithm based on navigable small world graphs (Malkov et al., 2014): NSW algorithm foundation

Modern Developments

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (Lewis et al., 2020): RAG systems
• Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering (Karpukhin et al., 2020): DPR approach
• Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks (Reimers & Gurevych, 2019): Semantic embeddings

Cloud Platform Documentation

• AWS OpenSearch Service: Official AWS documentation
• OpenSearch Documentation: Open source project docs
• Pinecone Documentation: Pinecone vector database docs

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