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Retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embeddings and semantic search

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Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Beyond Vector Search: The Hidden Engineering Traps of Graph-RAG in Production

An architectural breakdown of context bloat, mixed-axis blind spots, and the tipping point where semantic search fails at scale. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Deep Learning 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why Your RAG System Is Lying to You and Its Quick Fix.

RAG systems hallucinate differently. Instead of making up facts from thin air, they now make up facts that sound grounded in the documents… Continue reading on

Medium · LLM 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why Your RAG System Is Lying to You and Its Quick Fix.

RAG systems hallucinate differently. Instead of making up facts from thin air, they now make up facts that sound grounded in the documents… Continue reading on

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why Your RAG System Is Lying to You and Its Quick Fix.

RAG systems hallucinate differently. Instead of making up facts from thin air, they now make up facts that sound grounded in the documents… Continue reading on

Medium · LLM 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Vectorless RAG: The Next Evolution Beyond Vector Databases?

When should you use Vector Search, and when should you skip it entirely? Continue reading on Medium »

InfoQ AI/ML 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Article: Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG

In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an internal omni-search application usi

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Your knowledge base isn’t ready for RAG yet

Most conversations about RAG start in the wrong place. Teams get excited about the demo, the natural-language interface, the idea that… Continue reading on Medi

Dev.to AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Adding web search to our RAG pipeline: what broke and why

We added web search to a local RAG pipeline. It looked straightforward. It wasn’t. What followed: broken assumptions about scoring a safety model that behaved d

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Infrastructure Side of RAG That Most Tutorials Skip

What actually runs behind the scenes when a user sends a query to a production RAG system Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · DevOps 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Streamline Your Personal RAG Pipeline Directly from Your Browser Sidebar

Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system is incredibly popular right now. But anyone building a personal knowledge base or… Continue reading on Me

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Streamline Your Personal RAG Pipeline Directly from Your Browser Sidebar

Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system is incredibly popular right now. But anyone building a personal knowledge base or… Continue reading on Me

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Evaluate RAG Pipelines: An Industry Approach

If you have spent any time in the generative AI space recently, you already know that building a basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation… Continue reading on Mediu

ArXiv cs.AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

TrafficRAG: A Multimodal RAG Framework for Traffic Accident Liability Determination

arXiv:2606.01737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic accident liability analysis is a critical yet challenging task in intelligent transportation and legal a

ArXiv cs.AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Self-Conditioned Positional HNSW for Overlap-Aware Retrieval in Chunked-Document RAG Systems: Method and Industrial Evidence-Quality Audit

arXiv:2606.01542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chunked-document retrieval is a common component of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Documents ar

Medium · LLM 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG Fails Silently: Debugging Retrieval, Citations, and Unsupported Claims

A practical look at debugging the evidence chain in RAG systems: retrieval, context selection, answer claims, citation support, and local… Continue reading on T

Medium · LLM 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Retrieve - Augment - Generate - Repeat — RAG Is Slowly Becoming The New CRUD App….!

The Demo Worked. That Was The Problem. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

CORD-19 no Databricks (Free): do Lakehouse ao RAG com busca vetorial

Construir um sistema de RAG robusto vai muito além de criar um prompt bonito. Neste artigo, mostramos como pegamos 87 GB de dados… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Pourquoi mon second cerveau parlait sans comprendre

TL;DR : Mon second cerveau marchait plutôt bien… jusqu’au jour où il n’a pas su retrouver une note qui existait pourtant. Le problème : il… Continue reading on

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Evaluating RAG in Production: Structured Metrics, RAG Triad and Langfuse

In my previous article, we built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline from scratch. We loaded documents, created embeddings and… Continue reading on

Towards Data Science 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG Is Not Machine Learning, and the ML Toolkit Solves the Wrong Problem

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #3] - Why the ML toolkit (hyperparameter sweeps, train/test splits, explainability frameworks) solves the wrong problem,

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

GraphRAG Pays Off in Exactly Three Cases. Everywhere Else, You Are Burning Money.

The papers say GraphRAG delivers a 35% precision lift. That number is real. It also happens to be one of the most misleading stats in… Continue reading on Mediu

Hackernoon 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

What Production-Grade RAG Evaluation Should Look Like

This article argues that evaluating agentic RAG systems requires far more than a single faithfulness score. It explores a production-focused evaluation stack bu

Medium · NLP 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

50 Questions, Two Languages, Five Hours: Calibrating a Bilingual UAE Policy RAG

Here is the headline number I ended up with after running fifty questions through a bilingual UAE government-policy RAG, in Arabic and… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

From Flat Chunks to a Living Knowledge Graph: Why I Rebuilt My RAG System From Scratch

There’s a moment every engineer eventually encounters. Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · Sergey Inozemtsev 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I built a conversational RAG memory for my wife's LinkedIn agency for $44

My wife runs an agency that helps tech founders grow their LinkedIn presence. That means dozens of...

ArXiv cs.AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

On the impact of retrieved content representations in RAG Pipelines

arXiv:2605.30790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) supplements a language model's input with retrieved documents, yet most R

ArXiv cs.AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Understanding the Fundamental Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

arXiv:2411.19463v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical technique for enhancing large language

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Building a Digital Twin RAG Pipeline

In a previous article I published a walkthrough of a Medicare claims pipeline on Google Cloud (GCP) — Apache Beam, FAISS, and a RAG layer… Continue reading on M

Dev.to AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG vs Agent: The Decision That Broke My System (And How I Now Enforce It Upfront)

Most people treat the RAG-vs-Agent question as a technical preference. Pick whichever feels right, adjust later. I did that. It cost me two full rebuilds. Here'

Hackernoon 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

What Two Years of Research Have Taught Us About Chunking for RAG

This deep dive argues that chunking is one of the most overlooked determinants of RAG performance. Drawing on recent research from Chroma, Anthropic, Jina AI, a

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Cortex Search Vulnerability: Preventing Vector Privilege Escalation with Zero-Trust…

By: Abhishek K., Principal Sovereign Systems Architect Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Cortex Search Vulnerability: Preventing Vector Privilege Escalation with Zero-Trust…

By: Abhishek K., Principal Sovereign Systems Architect Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to · White Oak Intelligence 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG Architecture Deep Dive

In This Article Why RAG Over Fine-Tuning for Financial Documents Chunking Strategy for Financial...

Medium · Data Science 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Beyond the Vector Store: Why Your AI Agent Needs a “Living” Context Graph

For most developers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been the default architecture for building AI agents. We’ve all been there… Continue reading on Me

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Eight RAG Patterns I Would Actually Consider in Production

Last week someone asked me which “new RAG architecture” they should adopt. My honest answer was: probably none yet. Not because the… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Evaluating RAG Systems: A Practical Mental Model Beyond Metrics

Why great AI engineers think in evaluation layers — not metric lists. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Seu agente corporativo não precisa de mais RAG. Precisa de memória

0,12% de parâmetros mudam como agentes de IA lembram, investigam e trabalham. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Vector-less RAG: The Enterprise AI Search Architecture That Saves You $40,000 a Year

Enterprise RAG without embeddings: Use BM25, Lucene, and PageIndex for faster, cheaper, and explainable search. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Self-healing RAG: turning the pipeline from a straight line into a loop that inspects its own work

What happens when you stop trusting retrieval. The architectural rewrite, the eval deltas, and the UI hook that makes it demoable. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · RAG 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG em Produção: Escalando IA com Busca Vetorial e Contexto

Para mitigar a natureza probabilística e as alucinações inerentes aos LLMs, o padrão ouro da indústria para acoplar conhecimento externo… Continue reading on Me

Dev.to AI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

RAG Quality in Side Projects: Is Perfection Always Necessary?

Introduction: The Perfection Trap and Side Project Realities This morning, while sitting at my computer, I was reviewing the logs of the RAG (Retrieval-Augmente