Benedikt Schifferer

Benedikt Schifferer is a manager of an applied research team at NVIDIA working on information retrieval and LLMs. Previously, he researched Recommender Systems and was one of the engineers building the NVIDIA Merlin framework. Before his work at NVIDIA, he developed recommender systems for a German ecommerce company. He holds a Master of Science in Data Science from Columbia University, New York. Benedikt was part of the NVIDIA AI team that won the WSDM WebTour Workshop Challenge 2021 by Booking.com, ACM RecSys 2021, KDD Cup 2023 and 2024 competitions.
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Posts by Benedikt Schifferer

Generative AI Dec 17, 2024

Develop Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Systems with Efficient Data Storage

Efficient text retrieval is critical for a broad range of information retrieval applications such as search, question answering, semantic textual similarity,... 8 MIN READ
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Generative AI Feb 23, 2024

Evaluating Retriever for Enterprise-Grade RAG

The conversation about designing and evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems is a long, multi-faceted discussion. Even when we look at retrieval... 14 MIN READ
Generative AI Nov 28, 2023

Build Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation Apps with NVIDIA Retrieval QA Embedding Model

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming the AI landscape with their profound grasp of human and programming languages. Essential for next-generation... 12 MIN READ
Data Science Jul 20, 2021

Using Neural Networks for Your Recommender System

Deep learning (DL) is the state-of-the-art solution for many machine learning problems, such as computer vision or natural language problems and it outperforms... 9 MIN READ
Data Science May 06, 2021

How to Build a Winning Deep Learning Powered Recommender System-Part 3

Recommender systems (RecSys) have become a key component in many online services, such as e-commerce, social media, news service, or online video streaming.... 21 MIN READ
Data Science Oct 05, 2020

Announcing the NVIDIA NVTabular Open Beta with Multi-GPU Support and New Data Loaders

Recently, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced updates to the open beta of NVIDIA Merlin, an end-to-end framework that democratizes the development of large-scale... 12 MIN READ