François Gaillard
Engineering Manager at Adeo (Leroy Merlin, Bricoman) in AAAI team (Advanced Analysis and Artificial Intelligence) in Search & Publication domain. More than 10 years building and running AI powered search engines for e-commerce websites. PhD in computer science, specialized in Artificial Intelligence
Sessions
Sparse encoders: bridging products and knowledge graphs
Talk
16. September 2026, 10:00 - 10:45
Main Stage
Discover how Leroy Merlin bridges product catalogs with Knowledge Graphs using Sparse Encoders. We’ll share how we injected KG concepts as model tokens, tuned custom layers for 99%+ sparsity, and achieved explainable, low-latency (60ms) semantic search indexing ready for Elasticsearch.