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Retrieval
L3 · AdvancedFoundational
In plain terms
Finding the most relevant items for a query.
Technical definition
The step that ranks stored items by relevance to a query, typically by comparing query and item embeddings (often combined with keyword or metadata filters).
Example
Returning the top-k passages whose embeddings are closest to the question.