Hybrid Search + Docs
# 🧶︱general
b
i think we need a video for hybrid vdb set ups? I understand we have https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/search/hybrid-search but for newbies it might be beneficial especially if they only have experience with dense or sparse and want hands experience to see see the differences in retrieval with hybrid vs dense/sparse...
m
Hey! Welcome to the discord! Stay tuned on this topic, might have something for your very soon. For now, we made this video a while ago on advanced semantic search techniques like hybrid search, and this demo repo. Maybe those can be helpful!
video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdP2o00gas▾

And the sample app where you can pay around with differnet embedding models and retrieval methods: https://bird-semantic-search-pinecone.streamlit.app/
b
hey, thanks @mammoth-lighter-94680 . Hobbyist here. I ran through the streamlit app. ran a couple of queries. 2 quick questions. 1 is cascading the same as hybrid vdb (dense and sparse)? 2. please consider instead of the app tabs (dense, sparse, cascading, etc), using a table format. It is easier for comparison on pc and phone (can always turn it sideways 🙂 ) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1500160293978767541/1501028465774825642/Screenshot_2026-05-04_210650.png?ex=69fa9532&is=69f943b2&hm=405c8cab604008bf5f37fa921f1d276ec756f12c45edf47d1af5cefa57b94918&
m
Hey! Thanks for trying it out! 1. yes, more or less 2. heard!! I believe the annotation tab tries to address this but I hear you. Thanks!
Keep an eye out for tomorrow @broad-elephant-37809 for something that will make this easier