Index size not the bottleneck; underutilization of infra is
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-25
The discussion suggests index size hasn't been an issue since 2021, except for specific visual searches. ColBERTv2 and PLAID solved storage costs long ago. The real problem is the lack of infrastructure diffusion, as many still insist on raw matrix representations and MaxSim operations instead of optimized solutions.
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