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Understanding RAG for AI Applications

How Retrieval-Augmented Generation works and when to use it to improve an AI application’s answers.

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Retrieval augmented generation for AI applications
Fig 1.1 — Dynamic engineering analysis from DailyDevs Research

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) combines a language model with a searchable knowledge base. The application retrieves relevant sources before generating an answer.

How RAG works

  1. Split and index your documents.
  2. Retrieve the most relevant passages for a user question.
  3. Provide those passages as context to the model.
  4. Return an answer with source references.

RAG is useful when answers must reflect private, changing, or domain-specific information.

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