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

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

Your AI Is Searching Through a Pile of Paper Every Time You Ask It Something.Let’s

RAG — the technology powering most AI assistants right now — splits your documents into fragments and hopes the right one shows up when… Continue reading on Dat

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

turbovec for RAG: A Practical Guide to Faster, Smaller Vector Search

turbovec uses Google Research’s TurboQuant algorithm to compress RAG embeddings by 16× and outperform FAISS on ARM by 12–20%, without… Continue reading on Mediu

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

.NET 10 and Angular Signals Powered ‘Local-First’ Enterprise RAG (Vector Memory) Architecture

During Phase 3 of my .NET AI Architect Laboratory project development, I completely disabled external...

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

Five workloads that broke my RAG vendor assumptions

Managed rag as a service platforms look identical on a feature matrix. They all claim sub-second retrieval, enterprise-grade security, and… Continue reading on

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

RAG is a knowledge interpreter. Time for a compiler — Compile-Time RAG

Compile-Time RAG moves retrieval outside the request path: knowledge compilation builds task-optimized artifacts once, instead of fetching… Continue reading on

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

ALDEN: Boosting Private Data Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems via Active Learning and Distribution Estimation

arXiv:2605.18762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to augment large language models with external knowledge r

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

Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization

arXiv:2605.18772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the factual accuracy of large language model (LLM) outputs by gr

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

Query-Aware Flow Diffusion for Graph-Based RAG with Retrieval Guarantees

arXiv:2605.18775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems leverage interconnected knowledge structures to captu

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

Bridge: Retrieval-Augmented Spatiotemporal Modeling for Urban Delivery Demand

arXiv:2605.19172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting urban delivery demand becomes substantially more challenging when newly added service regions lack

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

How Generative AI + RAG Will Revolutionize Knowledge Management

For decades, organizations have invested heavily in knowledge bases — yet most still struggle with outdated content, low engagement, and… Continue reading on AI

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

Building Multi-Tenant RAG System Architecture — Step 3: Guardrails, MCP, and Retrieval-Augmented…

In the previous two steps, I covered the development of the authentication and authorization layer and designed tenant-isolated knowledge… Continue reading on M

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

Docling Part 3— The Missing Piece for Perfect RAG

TableFormer in Docling: A Deep Dive into Architecture and Document Pipeline Integration Continue reading on Medium »

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

The Access Control Gap That Makes Most Enterprise RAG Systems Dangerous

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 1 of 6 There is a retrieval failure mode that...

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

A Simple Guide to Late Chunking in RAG

I’ve been deep-diving into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines lately. While studying how embedding models process text, I… Continue reading on Mediu

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

RAG, Explained Simply: How AI Learns to Look Things Up

A beginner-friendly introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation — the technique quietly powering most of the AI tools you use today. Continue reading on Medi

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

I Spent 6 Months Fixing RAG. Here's What I Found (And Built)

This is the story of a debugging session that turned into a research paper. The Bug That Started...

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

Noetic Search: Graph Reconciliation After Hybrid Retrieval

Hybrid search is good at finding plausible chunks. Continue reading on Medium »

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

Why RAG Fails in Enterprise R&D (And What Actually Works)

RAG works for knowledge bases. It breaks in enterprise R&D environments with multi-system context, strict security, and AI agents that need to act — not just an

Dev.to · Mukunda Rao Katta 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Your RAG is getting worse and nothing in your code changed

I had a RAG system that was 92% accurate on Monday and 78% accurate three weeks later with no code or data changes. Here is what was actually moving.

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

wiki42: compile a markdown wiki into RAG-ready chunks

TL;DR If you have a markdown wiki and want to embed it for RAG, wiki42 does the chunking...

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

Türk Hukuku için Açık Kaynak RAG Dataset’i

Türkçe legal NLP üzerinde çalışan herkesin bildiği ama açıkça konuşulmayan bir gerçek var: Türk hukuku için herkesin erişebileceği… Continue reading on Medium »

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

Proxy-Pointer RAG: Solving Entity and Relationship Sprawl in Large Knowledge Graphs

A scalable semantic localization layer for entity and relationship reconciliation The post Proxy-Pointer RAG: Solving Entity and Relationship Sprawl in Large Kn

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

RAG Isn’t Just for Documents. It’s for Everything.

Most developers use Retrieval-Augmented Generation to search PDFs. Here’s why that’s only scratching the surface. Continue reading on Medium »

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

RAG Isn’t Just for Documents. It’s for Everything.

Most developers use Retrieval-Augmented Generation to search PDFs. Here’s why that’s only scratching the surface. Continue reading on Medium »

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

Building Production-Grade RAG: A Complete Architecture Guide

Moving beyond the “embed, retrieve, generate” demo every component you need to ship a reliable, observable, enterprise-ready RAG system. Continue reading on Med

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

Building Production-Grade RAG: A Complete Architecture Guide

Moving beyond the “embed, retrieve, generate” demo every component you need to ship a reliable, observable, enterprise-ready RAG system. Continue reading on Med

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

Chunking in RAG

So I was working on a project in the F&B industry where I had to take menu input and ingest it into my database. After that, whenever the… Continue reading on M

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

Building a Hybrid RAG in 200 Lines — SQLite + FTS5 + sqlite-vec + RRF

A complete walkthrough of a production-shaped hybrid retrieval system in a single Python file. BM25 keyword search via FTS5, dense vector search via sqlite-vec,

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

Why Snowflake's Bet on Streamlit Just Works — And Where Solo Builders Still Win

An 18-hour build later, here's why Snowflake's strategy with Streamlit is the cleanest enterprise RAG play on the market — and where the SQLite-and-tunnels crow

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

Retrieval Augmentation Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation, commonly called RAG, is an artificial intelligence framework that combines the power of large language… Continue reading on Medi

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

RAG Chunking Strategies Explained: The Step Most Developers Get Wrong

Most RAG implementations fail not because of the model, but because of how the data was chunked. Here’s every strategy explained. Continue reading on Medium »

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

Chunking Is Easy. Parsing Is Hard.

Why Your RAG Pipeline Is Reasoning Over Broken Data. Continue reading on Medium »

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

Chunking Is Easy. Parsing Is Hard.

Why Your RAG Pipeline Is Reasoning Over Broken Data. Continue reading on Medium »

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

RAG Evaluation with RAGAS: Measuring Faithfulness, Context Precision, and Recall in Production

Key takeaways: RAGAS gives you four core metrics that split RAG failures into retrieval vs....

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

I almost shipped the wrong RAG platform

Most teams I’ve seen adopt RAG-as-a-Service platforms in the same way they adopt any managed service: they run a proof of concept on clean… Continue reading on

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

Chunking for RAG: stop tuning the wrong knob

A practical chunking playbook for RAG: why semantic splitters disappoint, what chunk size + overlap actually buy you, and a small eval harness in Python.

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

Your RAG Pipeline Isn’t Broken. Your Chunks Are.

When I first heard about RAG, it sounded almost too straightforward. Take documents, chunk them, store them in a vector database, retrieve… Continue reading on

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

Your RAG Pipeline Isn’t Broken. Your Chunks Are.

When I first heard about RAG, it sounded almost too straightforward. Take documents, chunk them, store them in a vector database, retrieve… Continue reading on

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

From parsed PDFs to search-ready chunks: trying Databricks ai_prep_search for RAG

A hands-on walkthrough of using ai_parsed_document v2.0 and ai_prep_search to turn parsed documents into vector-search-ready chunks. Continue reading on Medium

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

Engineering RAG Systems That Actually Work: Conversational Retrieval, Page Awareness & Debugging (Part 5)

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

RAG- Understanding of Embedding

What is Embedding? After text is split into chunks, the next process is called embedding. In this step, each chunk is converted into vectors (points in vector s

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

My first time building with TigerGraph GraphRAG

A few notes from solo-building SanctionTrace for the TigerGraph GraphRAG hackathon about what worked, what didn’t, and the forty-eight… Continue reading on Medi

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

How to Build a RAG Evaluation Framework That Catches Real Problems

Six months into running a production RAG system, I had a problem: my users kept complaining about...

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

Why Your Standard RAG is Failing (And How to Fix It)

The Evolution of RAG Systems: Deterministic Flows for Autonomous AI Architectures Continue reading on Medium »

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

I Benchmarked 3 RAG Pipelines on 4 Datasets. GraphRAG Won — But Not How I Expected.

A live benchmark of LLM-Only, Basic RAG, and TigerGraph GraphRAG across 2,335 documents stored on TigerGraph Cloud. Continue reading on Medium »

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

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I Benchmarked GraphRAG vs Basic RAG on 70,000 Indian Supreme Court Judgments — Here's What...

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

How We Built CyberGraph RAG: A 3.5M Token Cybersecurity GraphRAG System with TigerGraph

Traditional Vector RAG struggles with highly connected cybersecurity data. Threat actors, malware,...

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

Your RAG Pipeline Is Failing 40% of Queries. Here's the Fix.

You deployed a RAG pipeline. You tested it. You shipped it. Then a real user asked a multi-step...