Berlin Buzzwords 2025

Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya

Developer Relations at Qdrant with 7 years of IT experience across software engineering, machine learning, and technical management, and 3 years in Developer Relations. Holds a Master’s in Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Data Engineering. Passionate about NLP, data-centric AI, and the role of vector databases in advancing AI technologies.


Company/Organisation

Qdrant

Twitter

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeniya-sukhodolskaya/


Session

06-17
11:10
40min
miniCOIL: Sparse Neural Retrieval Done Right
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya

In this talk, we present miniCOIL — our attempt to make a sparse neural retrieval model as it should be — combining the benefits of dense and lexical retrieval without propagating their drawbacks. We will share how to design and train a lightweight model that is performant on out-of-domain data and demonstrate its capabilities.

Kesselhaus