Day 3 Demo: Keyword Search with Sparse Vectors Use sparse vectors for keywords-based text retrieval. What You’ll Learn Connection between Sparse Vectors & keywords-based retrieval Using BM25 in Qdrant Sparse Neural Retrieval Using SPLADE++ in Qdrant Text Encoding In sparse vectors, each non‑zero dimension represents an object that plays a specific role for the item being represented. When we work with text, the natural choice for these objects is words.