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Vector Databases: From Embeddings to Applications
This course teaches how data vectorization and vector databases enable context-based search over keyword matching, multimodal data search, enhance recommendation systems, and power LLMs.
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What You'll Learn
- An understanding of vector databases and their significance in modern-world AI applications
- An understanding of embeddings in vector databases
- The ability to build efficient, intelligent applications using the power of vector databases and embeddings
- Hands-on experience generating unimodal and multimodal embeddings
- The ability to find similar embeddings within a vector space
- Hands-on experience using the Chroma vector database
- Hands-on experience building unimodal and multimodal semantic search applications
- Hands-on experience building embeddings and vector database-powered music recommendation system
- An understanding of HNSW, the most widely used vector indexing technique used in vector databases for performance optimization
Learning Roadmap
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Getting Started with Vector Databases and Embeddings
Getting Started with Vector Databases and Embeddings
Look at the essentials of vector databases, embeddings, similarity measures, and multimodal integration.
Introduction to Vector Databases and EmbeddingsMethods for Measuring Similarity between EmbeddingsEmbedding Models for Different Data TypesGenerating Text Data Embeddings with BERTGenerating Image, Video, and Audio EmbeddingsMultimodal EmbeddingsEmbeddings vs. Fine-TuningQuiz: Getting Started with Vector Databases and Embeddings
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Working with Vector Databases
Working with Vector Databases
5 Lessons
5 Lessons
Work your way through leveraging open-source vector databases, hands-on practices, and optimization techniques.
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Developing a Music Recommendation System
Developing a Music Recommendation System
4 Lessons
4 Lessons
Apply your skills to develop and optimize a music recommendation system using vector databases.
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