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What are Matryoshka embeddings, and why are they useful for retrieval at scale?

One trained embedding you can truncate to any length and still use. The signal is the nested-prefix training objective and the coarse-to-fine retrieval win it unlocks at scale. Here is the answer.

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One trained embedding you can truncate to any length and still use. The signal is the nested-prefix training objective and the coarse-to-fine retrieval win it unlocks at scale. Here is the answer.

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