RAG Retriever

Definitions

1. The retriever component in a retrieval-augmented generation system that selects candidate documents or chunks for the model to use as context. Retriever quality is often the main bottleneck in RAG performance.

   In plain English: The component that retrieves relevant source material in a RAG system.

   Example: "They replaced the original RAG retriever after evaluation showed it overfavored semantically similar but outdated help pages."

Related Terms

• Retrieval Augmented Generation
• AI Index
• Context Stuffing
• RAG Architecture
• RAG Chain
• RAG Chunk
• RAG Context
• RAG Embedding
• RAG Evaluation
• RAG Index
• Retriever