CANCEL your weekend plans.
You NEED to:
• Build a RAG system that cites sources with page numbers
• Implement hybrid search (dense + sparse) for better retrieval
• Add reranking with cross-encoders for top-10 accuracy
• Set up chunking strategies (500 tokens, 50 overlap minimum)
• Build query expansion for better recall
• Add metadata filtering for scoped retrieval
• Implement citation grounding to prevent hallucinations
• Create an eval harness with 50+ golden test cases
• Track retrieval metrics: hit rate, MRR, NDCG
• Add fallback to web search when confidence is low
• Build query rewriting for ambiguous questions
• Implement parent document retrieval for context
• Add embedding caching to reduce latency 80%
• Use colbert or late interaction for better accuracy
• Build a RAG dashboard showing retrieval quality
• Test with adversarial queries that should return nothing
• Document your chunking strategy and why it works
• Benchmark against naive RAG and show improvement
You have way too much to do.
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