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title: AIE WF2026 Qdrant Edge Hybrid Search
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license: apache-2.0
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# AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — Qdrant Edge hybrid search

Search 560 WF2026 talks with a **hybrid** retriever running on **embedded Qdrant Edge**
(`qdrant-edge-py`, in-process) behind FastAPI — no cloud vector DB.

- Dense `bge-small-en-v1.5` + sparse **BM25** (`Qdrant/bm25`, IDF) fused with **RRF**, all inside Qdrant Edge
- Prebuilt index loaded from the GitHub release on boot; query embedded server-side
- Each result badged by retriever (Dense / BM25 / Both), ranked by RRF hybrid

Code: https://github.com/KShivendu/aie-wf2026-qdrant-edge-search