Improving Retrieval Performance in RAG Pipelines with Hybrid Search

How to find more relevant search results by combining traditional keyword-based search with modern vector search

With the recent interest in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, developers have started discussing challenges in building RAG pipelines with production-ready performance. Just like in many aspects of life, the Pareto Principle also comes into play with RAG pipelines, where achieving the initial 80% is relatively straightforward, but attaining the remaining 20% for production readiness proves challenging.

One commonly …

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