Capabilities & limits concept illustration

Capabilities & limits

Reranking

A second pass that reorders retrieved results by how relevant they really are, so only the best context goes into the prompt. Improves RAG quality and trims wasted tokens.

In practice

A reranker pushes the one truly relevant doc above ten loosely-related ones.

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