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Chunking
L3 · AdvancedEvolving
In plain terms
Splitting documents into retrievable pieces.
Technical definition
Segmenting source text into passages sized for embedding and retrieval, trading off context completeness against precision; overlap and boundaries strongly affect retrieval quality.
Example
Breaking a manual into 500-token overlapping sections before embedding.