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title: "Multi-Vector Search Course"
page_title: "Qdrant Multi-Vector Search Course"
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description: Master late interaction models, ColPali, and production optimization. Build scalable multi-vector search pipelines.
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description: Master late interaction models, ColPali, and production optimization. Build scalable multi-vector search pipelines.
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# Multi-Vector Search
TBD
**Build production-ready multi-vector search pipelines**
Go beyond single-vector embeddings with late interaction models like ColBERT and ColPali. Learn the MaxSim distance metric, optimize for billion-scale search, and evaluate your retrieval pipelines with industry-standard metrics.
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{{< cards-list >}}
- icon: /icons/outline/play-white.svg
title: 4 modules
content: Focused lessons building from fundamentals to production
- icon: /icons/outline/cloud-check-blue.svg
title: Shareable certificate
content: Earn a digital certificate upon completion
- icon: /icons/outline/time-blue.svg
title: Flexible schedule
content: Learn at your own pace (1–2 hours/module)
- icon: /icons/outline/plan.svg
title: Advanced level
content: Assumes familiarity with vector search basics
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## What you'll learn
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title="Skills you'll gain:"
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- Late interaction paradigm and MaxSim distance metric
- ColBERT for text and ColPali for visual documents
- Multi-stage retrieval with prefetch and reranking
- Quantization and pooling techniques for memory optimization
- MUVERA indexing for billion-scale search
- Evaluation metrics: Recall@k, NDCG, MRR
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### The Path
**Module 0**: Setup. Configure Qdrant Cloud or local instance and install Python dependencies.
**Module 1**: Text multi-vectors. Understand the late interaction paradigm, learn the MaxSim distance metric, explore use cases and challenges, and implement ColBERT with Qdrant.
**Module 2**: Multi-modal search. Apply multi-vector representations to images and PDFs with ColPali. Explore model variants and leverage visual interpretability for debugging.
**Module 3**: Optimization and evaluation. Master quantization, pooling, and MUVERA for memory-efficient search. Build multi-stage retrieval pipelines and evaluate with standard metrics.
## How the course works
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- icon: /icons/outline/training-purple.svg
title: Video-first lessons
content: Clear, concise modules by the Qdrant team
- icon: /icons/outline/hacker-purple.svg
title: Final project
content: Build a production-ready multi-modal search system
- icon: /icons/outline/similarity-blue.svg
title: Hands-on notebooks
content: Practice each concept with Colab notebooks
- icon: /icons/outline/copy.svg
title: Progressive learning
content: Build from fundamentals to advanced optimization
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## Syllabus
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- title: "Module 0: Setting Up Dependencies"
content: |
- Qdrant Setup
- Installing Dependencies
<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/multi-vector-search/module-0/">→ Start Module 0</a></p>
- title: "Module 1: Multi-Vector Representations for Textual Data"
content: |
- Late Interaction Basics
- MaxSim Distance Metric
- Use Cases for Multi-Vector Search
- Problems of Multi-Vector Search
- Multi-Vector Embeddings in Qdrant
<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/multi-vector-search/module-1/">→ Start Module 1</a></p>
- title: "Module 2: Multi-Vector Representations for Multi-Modal Data"
content: |
- How ColPali Models Work
- ColPali Family Overview
- Visual Interpretability of ColPali
<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/multi-vector-search/module-2/">→ Start Module 2</a></p>
- title: "Module 3: Scalability and Optimization"
content: |
- Multi-Stage Retrieval with Universal Query API
- Vector Quantization Techniques
- Pooling Techniques
- MUVERA Indexing
- Evaluating Search Pipelines
- Final Project
<br>
<br>
<p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/multi-vector-search/module-3/">→ Start Module 3</a></p>
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## Who it's for
ML, backend, and search engineers who want to go beyond single-vector embeddings. Requires intermediate Python, basic familiarity with vector search concepts (embeddings, similarity metrics), and comfort with APIs.
## Time commitment
- Duration: 4 modules at 2-3 hours/module
- Video learning: ~4 hours
- Hands-on notebooks: ~4 hours
- Final project: 2-4 hours
- Total: 8-12 hours
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title="Ready to master multi-vector search?"
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**What you'll get**
- Build production-ready multi-vector pipelines
- Practice with real Colab notebooks
- Learn optimization techniques for scale
- Portfolio project and community support
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