Dense + sparse retrievers

Two perspectives. One shared definition of relevance.

A great answer needs both meaning and keywords. Our dense encoders grasp semantic context—synonyms, paraphrases, and domain jargon—while sparse heads lock onto lexical cues like ticket IDs and product codes. By fine-tuning them on the same corpus, they learn a shared definition of relevance from complementary viewpoints so no crucial signal is missed.

Semantic coverage

Dense encoders speak your domain

Fine-tuned on docs, tickets, chats, and runbooks, dense models capture synonyms, paraphrases, and jargon that matter to your team.

  • Understands how customers describe symptoms and intent.
  • Learns from production feedback to stay current on language.
Lexical precision

Sparse heads anchor exact signals

Sparse retrievers stay sharp on IDs, SKUs, error codes, and policy names, giving you deterministic hooks when you need them.

  • Joint training keeps sparse weights aligned with dense meaning.
  • Hard negatives sharpen discrimination between near-misses.
Ops ready

Hand-off playbooks for any infrastructure

Deploy dense-only, sparse-only, or hybrid blends with open weights, ANN recipes, and telemetry wiring ready on day one.

  • Reference integrations for your vector + inverted indexes.
  • Adjust blends without a retrain using provided fusion weights.

How dense + sparse dual encoders pay off

Unified training means both models respect the same evaluation metrics and telemetry budgets.

Meaning + keywords

Dense encoders grasp synonyms, paraphrases, and domain jargon while sparse models anchor to IDs, error codes, and feature names.

Shift-aware training

Joint fine-tuning on production hard negatives keeps both encoders calibrated to your latest traffic and edge cases.

Works with your infra

Plug into existing vector stores and search clusters; we hand over open weights, ANN recipes, and batching strategies.

Flexible deployment

Run dense-only, sparse-only, or hybrid blends. Deploy via hosted endpoints or ship the open weights into your VPC.