How RAG Gives Large Language Models Their Own Knowledge Base – Illustrated with Easysearch
The article explains why Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) is needed to overcome large language models' knowledge cut‑off and hallucination issues, details the offline indexing and online retrieval‑generation workflow, compares RAG with fine‑tuning, and shows how Easysearch’s hybrid search makes an effective RAG backbone.
