Breaking the Question Apart: How Compositional Retrieval Reshapes RAG Performance
TL;DR for operators A standard RAG system often retrieves the most individually relevant chunks. That is useful until the question needs several different pieces of evidence that must work together. Then the system may return five near-duplicates of the most obvious fact and miss the less obvious fact that actually completes the answer. Excellent. We have reinvented the meeting where everyone brings the same slide. ...