Contextual Retrieval — 2 Technical Articles

Oct 17, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

How Contextual Retrieval Slashes RAG Failures by Up to 67% and Cuts Costs

Anthropic’s Contextual Retrieval augments traditional RAG with contextual embeddings and BM25, reducing retrieval failure rates by 49% (up to 67% with reranking), improving accuracy across domains, and lowering latency and cost through Claude’s prompt‑caching feature.

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How Contextual Retrieval Slashes RAG Failures by Up to 67% and Cuts Costs

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Oct 2, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Boost RAG Retrieval Accuracy with Contextual Embeddings and BM25

This article presents a contextual retrieval technique that combines contextual embeddings and contextual BM25 to reduce RAG miss rates by up to 67%, explains the underlying methods, implementation steps, cost considerations, experimental results, and practical deployment guidance.

AIBM25Contextual Retrieval

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Boost RAG Retrieval Accuracy with Contextual Embeddings and BM25