Why it matters

Contextual retrieval proven improvement. Understanding shapes practice.

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The architecture

LLM: summarize doc-level context for each chunk.

Prepend to chunk.

Embed enriched chunk.

Contextual retrieval flowRaw chunktextLLM adds contextdoc-level summaryEnriched chunkfor embeddingAnthropic 2024; combine with hybrid + rerank for max gains
Contextual RAG math.
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How it works end to end

50-100 tokens context per chunk.

One-time ingestion cost.

Combine with hybrid + rerank for max.