[jschumacher]

Neural search in combination with learning algorithms and traditional keyword searches are clearly the future. They vastly outperform traditional search engines.

At sajari.com we have been working on an experiment that uses a 1 cpu machine on cloud run to serve a neural network generated, hash based index of an old BestBuy catalog (25k products). Retrieval uses an approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) look up which typically takes ~1msec. Speed and relevancy are already pretty good.

But we have also learned that there is no one silver bullet and we have seen the best results when combining neural search with traditional keyword search and reinforcement learning.

You can take a look at the demo here: http://neural-hashes.sajari.com

Be gentle, this is an experiment and not a production scale implementation.

[mish15]

This is easily the most fun thing I’ve been involved with for years. Can’t wait to see it ship.