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RAG & RetrievalshippedNov 2025

Hybrid RAG Retrieval Pipeline

BM25 + dense semantic search with cross-encoder reranking, per-document-type chunking and metadata filtering over a 200+ document enterprise knowledge base.

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200+
multi-page documents
3-stage
sparse + dense + rerank

Pipeline

Why hybrid

Dense retrieval misses exact identifiers and domain jargon; BM25 misses paraphrases. Fusing both and reranking with a cross-encoder measurably improved answer relevance over dense-only and reduced hallucination on domain-specific queries.

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