Advanced RAG (Chunking, Reranking, Hybrid Search)
Basic RAG retrieves the top-k most similar chunks. That works for simple questions. It falls apart for multi-hop reasoning, ambiguous queries, and large corpora. Advanced RAG is the difference between a demo that works on 10 documents and a system that works on 10 million.
Visual edition planned
This lesson isn’t interactive yet.
It is part of the curriculum and will get the same treatment as Phase 1 — a visual cover, hands-on labs, derivations with numeric checks and a quiz. Until then, the original lesson is the best place to read it:
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