The latest articles on DEV Community by Giovanni Del Gallo (@gigagiova). https://dev.to/gigagiova https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1094323%2F32e5b623-e28a-43a2-8ca5-4d7d85da935c.jpeg https://dev.to/gigagiova en Giovanni Del Gallo Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:39:57 +0000 https://dev.to/gigagiova/easy-to-use-python-library-for-retrieval-in-llms-apps-1n0b https://dev.to/gigagiova/easy-to-use-python-library-for-retrieval-in-llms-apps-1n0b <p>Hi guys, I've been developing LLM apps for a while now, and creating a retrieval engine always gives me headaches.<br> Managed solutions are way too expensive, while libraries like faiss are definitely too unwieldy.</p> <p>Additionally, semantic or keyword searches often perform poorly, but there are not many hybrid alternatives out there. I've open-sourced a library that makes it super easy (3 lines of code) to create a retrieval engine using hybrid search, taking the best of semantic and keyword search.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/gigagiova/hybrid-index">GitHub</a></p> <p>I hope it helps! Giovanni</p>