The most recent publications from the Qdrant team.
Discover the power of neural search. Learn what neural search is and follow our tutorial to build a neural search service using BERT, Qdrant, and FastAPI.
Andrey Vasnetsov and Manas Chopra
August 01, 2026
Learn how to accurately and efficiently create text embeddings with FastEmbed.
Nirant Kasliwal and Manas Chopra
July 30, 2026
Plan bulk uploads in Qdrant: batching, parallelization, sharding, payload indexes, quantization, and on-disk storage.
John Kupchanko
July 14, 2026
Start here to understand the building blocks of vector search. Learn what vector databases, embeddings, quantization, and retrieval-augmented generation are and how they fit together.
Building proper search requires selecting the right embedding model for your specific use case. This guide helps you navigate the selection process based on performance, cost, and other practical considerations.
Kacper Łukawski
July 15, 2025
Why add-on vector search looks good — until you actually use it.
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya & Andrey Vasnetsov
February 17, 2025
Discover how vector databases power semantic search by understanding the meaning behind your data. This guide breaks down how they work and why they've become the backbone of modern AI search.
Sabrina Aquino & Chadha Sridi
October 09, 2024
Go beyond the basics and master vector search with Qdrant. Learn how to combine filtering, hybrid retrieval, multivectors, and reranking to build high-quality search.
Part 5 of the sparse embeddings series. We packaged the entire training pipeline from Parts 1-4 into an open-source CLI and web dashboard that fine-tunes SPLADE models for any product catalog in minutes.
Thierry Damiba
March 09, 2026
Part 4 of a 5-part series on fine-tuning SPLADE sparse embeddings for e-commerce search. Test cross-domain generalization, train a multi-domain model, and decide when to specialize vs generalize.
Thierry Damiba
March 09, 2026
Part 3 of a 5-part series on fine-tuning SPLADE sparse embeddings for e-commerce search. Index products in Qdrant, run retrieval benchmarks, and implement ANCE-inspired hard negative mining for a 28% improvement over BM25.
Thierry Damiba
March 09, 2026
Learn how to evaluate and improve the quality of your vector search. Explore relevance feedback, evaluation methodologies, and benchmarking techniques.
Detect weak retrieval with cheap signals from the result, no extra model call. Which one predicts failure depends on your corpus, so test it on your data.
Dylan Couzon
June 24, 2026
The story behind the vector search-native relevance feedback feature, available since 1.17.0, which increases the relevance of search results universally, cheaply, and at scale.
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
February 20, 2026
Relerance feedback: from ancient history to LLMs. Why relevance feedback techniques are good on paper but not popular in neural search, and what we can do about it.
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
March 27, 2025
Operate Qdrant at scale. Learn how to optimize memory and resources, apply quantization, manage multitenancy and sharding, and secure access in production.
Plan bulk uploads in Qdrant: batching, parallelization, sharding, payload indexes, quantization, and on-disk storage.
John Kupchanko
July 14, 2026
TurboQuant — a new rotation-based vector quantization algorithm from Google Research — now ships in Qdrant 1.18, with extensions that make it work on real embeddings.
Ivan Pleshkov & Jonas Schulz
May 13, 2026
We gathered our most recommended tips and tricks to make your production deployment run smoothly.
David Myriel
April 30, 2025
Take a look under the hood of Qdrant’s high-performance vector search engine. Explore the architecture, components, and design principles the Qdrant Vector Search Engine is built on.
Why and how we built our own key-value store. A short technical report on our procedure and results.
Luis Cossio, Arnaud Gourlay & David Myriel
February 05, 2025
Learn how immutable data structures improve vector search performance in Qdrant.
Andrey Vasnetsov
August 20, 2024
Slow disk decelerating your Qdrant deployment? Get on top of IO overhead with this one trick!
Andre Bogus
June 21, 2023
Explore the research behind modern embeddings and neural retrieval. Dive into sparse neural models, late interaction, metric learning, and new baselines for hybrid search.
Introducing miniCOIL, a lightweight sparse neural retriever capable of generalization.
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
May 13, 2025
A comprehensive guide to modern sparse neural retrievers: COIL, TILDEv2, SPLADE, and more. Find out how they work and learn how to use them effectively.
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
October 23, 2024
We recently discovered that embedding models can become late interaction models & can perform surprisingly well in some scenarios. See what we learned here.
Kacper Łukawski
August 14, 2024
Build retrieval-augmented generation and agentic applications with Qdrant. Learn agentic RAG patterns, agent memory, semantic caching, and how agents access your data.
Learn how to build performant, scalable AI agents with efficient vector retrieval, hybrid dense-sparse search, real-time memory, multimodal context integration, and optimized architectures for low-latency, high-accuracy execution in production environments.
Thierry Damiba
October 26, 2025
Agents are a new paradigm in AI, and they are changing how we build RAG systems. Learn how to build agents with Qdrant and which framework to choose.
Kacper Łukawski
November 22, 2024
Semantic cache is reshaping AI applications by enabling rapid data retrieval. Discover how its implementation benefits your RAG setup.
Daniel Romero, David Myriel
May 07, 2024
Learn how you can leverage vector similarity beyond just search. Reveal hidden patterns and insights in your data, provide recommendations, and navigate data space.
Explore your data under a new angle with Qdrant's tools for dimensionality reduction, clusterization, and visualization.
Andrey Vasnetsov
March 11, 2025
Discovery Search, an innovative way to constrain the vector space in which a search is performed, relying only on vectors.
Luis Cossío
January 31, 2024
Feeling hungry? Find the perfect meal with Qdrant's multimodal semantic search.
Kacper Łukawski
September 05, 2023
Learn by building. Follow hands-on tutorials and demos covering neural search, serverless deployments, search-as-you-type, and integrations with popular frameworks.
Discover the power of neural search. Learn what neural search is and follow our tutorial to build a neural search service using BERT, Qdrant, and FastAPI.
Andrey Vasnetsov and Manas Chopra
August 01, 2026
Learn how to accurately and efficiently create text embeddings with FastEmbed.
Nirant Kasliwal and Manas Chopra
July 30, 2026
To show off Qdrant's performance, we show how to do a quick search-as-you-type that will come back within a few milliseconds.
Andre Bogus
August 14, 2023