Puxuan Yu

Puxuan Yu

Software Engineer

Puxuan Yu is a software engineer on Snowflake’s Cortex Search team, where he works on various search-related projects. He holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in improving the accessibility of information retrieval. His research focuses on areas such as multilingualism, explainability, diversification, and efficiency in IR.

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Evaluating Multimodal vs. Text-Based Retrieval for RAG with Snowflake Cortex

Discover how multimodal retrieval on Snowflake Cortex transforms enterprise PDF search, enhancing accuracy and speed across complex document formats.

Puxuan Yu|Danmei Xu|Zhewei Yao|Snowflake AI Research

APR 21, 2025|8 min read

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Long-Context Isn't All You Need: Impact of Retrieval and Chunking on Finance RAG

Retrieval and chunking strategies remain crucial for accurate AI-generated financial insights, even with long-context LLMs. Learn about key RAG optimizations.

Rajhans Samdani

MAR 11, 2025|15 min read

Snowflake’s Arctic Embed 2.0 Goes Multilingual: Empowering Global-Scale Retrieval with Inference Efficiency and High-Quality Retrieval

Snowflake’s Arctic Embed 2.0 Goes Multilingual: Empowering Global-Scale Retrieval with Inference Efficiency and High-Quality Retrieval

DEC 04, 2024|6 min read