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March 13, 2026 12 min read
1999

BM25: The Okapi Classical Retrieval Model

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The classic probabilistic search algorithm that remains the industry-standard lexical baseline for ranking document relevance based on term frequency.

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March 13, 2026 15 min read
2022

HyDE: Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval

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An innovative zero-shot retrieval model that generates a hypothetical document to guide dense vector retrieval without search fine-tuning.

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March 12, 2026 14 min read
2020

Bi-Encoder: Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain QA

dense-retrievaldprdual-towerbi-encoderembeddingsvector-databases

A dual-tower transformer framework that maps queries and documents independently to dense vectors, enabling fast similarity searches.

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March 12, 2026 15 min read
2019

Cross-Encoder: High-Precision Passage Re-ranking

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A joint-attention ranking model that processes queries and passages together, offering high accuracy at the expense of query latency.

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March 11, 2026 16 min read
2020

RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge NLP

ragretrieval-augmentedllmsparametric-memoryexternal-knowledge

The foundational architecture combining pre-trained parametric language models with non-parametric external vector indexes to reduce hallucinations.

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March 11, 2026 15 min read
2026

Gemma 4: Open, Unified and Encoder-Free Multimodal Foundation Models

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Google's newly launched open-weights multimodal model featuring a unified, encoder-free architecture that processes vision, audio, and text directly in the LLM backbone.

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