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No. 01 — 2026

Published Journal

The Journal

Reflections on system architecture, machine-learning data pipelines, and visual discovery in artwork collections.

2026-05-19By Retrievals Engineering

Behind the Canvas: The Multi-Modal Architecture of Semantic Art

An in-depth look at how we built a state-of-the-art visual discovery engine for the National Gallery of Art using Next.js, serverless GPU containers on Modal, FAISS vector search, and Qwen3-VL multi-modal reranking.

#architecture#artificial intelligence#nextjs#modal#search
Behind the Canvas: The Multi-Modal Architecture of Semantic Art