Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

news.ycombinator.com

11–20 of 20 posts

Re: Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

#14
Cohere's embed-v4.0 is my daily driver as far as a high performance model is concerned. I do a lot of cluster analysis and data visualization and I like that there's an `input_type="clustering"` mode in addition to the standard `input_type="search"` mode.

For a fast, open, and local model, I've found it hard to beat https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...

Re: Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

#18
post #13

Just fyi, for RAG/similarity search, adding a reranker was much bigger pay off than switching embedding models.

What top K do you use for vector search before passing into the reranker?

At a minimum, you increase top-k to cast a wider net, then after reranking, take the N you really want. You have to play around with it a bit, but that’s the idea.
Post reply on HN