RAG
Generating a Synthetic Dataset for RAG
When retrieval fails in your domain or language, you can prompt a large model to generate training data for a custom retriever, matching thousands of hand-labels for tens of dollars.
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When retrieval fails in your domain or language, you can prompt a large model to generate training data for a custom retriever, matching thousands of hand-labels for tens of dollars.
Embeddings turn text into vectors so meaning becomes geometry. Here is the mental model, the gotchas, and how to choose a model in 2026.
Rerankers re-score your top candidates with a model that actually reads the query and the document together. Here is how they work and when they pay off.
Chunking quietly decides how good your RAG system can ever be. Here is how the main strategies compare and a simple way to pick one.