Is RAG All You Need? A Look at the Limits of Retrieval Augmentation

Editor’s note: Sara Zanzottera is a speaker for ODSC East this April 23–25. Be sure to check out her talk, “RAG, the bad parts (and the good!): building a deeper understanding of this hot LLM paradigm’s weaknesses, strengths, and limitations,” there to learn more about Retrieval Augmentation Generation!

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is by far one of the most popular and effective techniques to bring LLMs to production. Introduced by a Meta paper in 2021, it has since …

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