Google Confirms It Uses Something Similar To MUVERA

Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions during the recent Search Central Live Deep Dive in Asia about whether or not they use the new Multi‑Vector Retrieval via Fixed‑Dimensional Encodings (MUVERA) retrieval method and also if they’re using Graph Foundation Models.

MUVERA

Google recently announced MUVERA in a blog post and a research paper: a method that improves retrieval by turning complex multi-vector search into fast single-vector search. It compresses sets of token embeddings into fixed-dimensional vectors that closely approximate their…