Distinguished Speaker Series with Ping Li: ML-Enhanced Sparse Vector Search with Privacy Protection

Instacart Engineering invites renowned researchers and practitioners to present state-of-the-art work on the technology that lies behind much of the digital economy.

For the latest session of our Distinguished Speaker Series, we will host Ping Li for “Machine Learning-Enhanced Sparse Vector Search with Privacy Protection.”

Event details:

Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Time: 4:00–5:00 pm PT

Zoom Link HERE, Password: 923229

Abstract: The evolutions of large language models (LLMs) and AI Agents have stimulated a widespread adoption of vector search in AIGC applications. Small/medium businesses as well as large enterprises enhance LLMs with their proprietary documents. Compared with fine-tuning, RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), is a cost-effective strategy that transforms documents into embedding vectors and stores the massive number of embeddings in a vector database, which is typically hosted in a public cloud. During this event, Dr. Ping Li, CEO of VecML, will discuss how VecML is making changes to this current practice.

Speaker: Ping Li, CEO of VecML, is a PhD from Stanford (Advised by Trevor Hastie), a former Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn, and a former Chief Architect at Baidu (with teams in Bellevue, Sunnyvale, Beijing). Ping Li was also a professor at Cornell and Rutgers Universities and was listed by www.csrankings.org as a top researcher in machine learning and information retrieval.