📅 2025-02-18 — Session: Developed Modular Data Retrieval Scripts with FAISS

🕒 14:20–16:10
🏷️ Labels: FAISS, Hugging Face, Rag Model, Summarization, Retrieval
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to explore and implement advanced summarization and retrieval techniques using state-of-the-art models and frameworks.

Key Activities

  • Discussed and compared extractive vs. abstractive summarization methods, focusing on their application in projects.
  • Reviewed generative summarization techniques, including model architectures and fine-tuning methods.
  • Explored the RAG model for document retrieval, detailing its retriever component and fine-tuning options.
  • Built a quote finder using the RAG model, covering dataset preparation and retrieval querying.
  • Addressed handling large text collections with FAISS and DPR, emphasizing scalability and memory requirements.
  • Created a Hugging Face Dataset with FAISS indexing, including embedding computation and dataset saving.
  • Corrected FAISS index argument usage and resolved saving errors in Hugging Face datasets.
  • Developed a modular script structure for data processing and retrieval, focusing on preprocessing, embedding, loading, and querying.
  • Enhanced retrieval accuracy in FAISS by refining embedding models and normalizing data.

Achievements

  • Successfully implemented a modular approach for data processing scripts using Hugging Face and FAISS.
  • Corrected and optimized FAISS index handling and dataset saving processes.

Pending Tasks

  • Further exploration of abstractive summarization techniques for specific project needs.
  • Continuous improvement of retrieval accuracy with FAISS by experimenting with different embedding models and similarity measures.