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Information Retrieval

The field of finding relevant documents from a large collection in response to a query. Information retrieval underpins search engines, RAG systems, and recommendation engines. Modern approaches combine keyword methods with neural embedding techniques.

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Semantic SearchRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)Hybrid Search

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