TopK: Billion-Scale Hybrid Retrieval from the Ground Up (Marek Galovic) @CMUDatabaseGroup

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CMU Database Group — PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series (Spring 2026)
Speakers: Marek Galovic (linkedin.com/in/marek-galovic/)
February 16, 2026
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spring2026/#db3

Sponsors:
Google DAPA Team (https://google.com)
SO-YOU-DONT-HAVE-TO (https://sydht.ai)

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