Retrieval Pipeline

Definitions

1. The pipeline that turns a query into retrieved evidence, often including rewriting, embedding, search, ranking, filtering, and context assembly. Retrieval pipelines are a major source of both latency and quality variation in grounded AI systems.

   In plain English: The workflow used to retrieve relevant information.

   Example: "The retrieval pipeline added tenant scoping and freshness filtering before reranking documents for the final answer."

Related Terms

• AI Index
• AI Processing
• AI Search
• AI Toolchain
• Context Stuffing
• Input Processing
• LLM Pipeline
• Model Pipeline
• Prompt Pipeline
• Relevance Score
• Retrieval Model
• Retrieval Quality
• Retriever
• Training Pipeline