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Phase 4: Retrieval Quality & Grounded Answers

7.4 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth
8
novelty
7
actionability
8
community
5
strategic
6
personal
9

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Phase 4: Retrieval Quality & Grounded Answers
Summary

RAG systems hallucinate because Top-K vector retrieval returns the closest chunks (e.g., a holiday calendar scoring 0.81) rather than relevant ones. Phase 4 fixes this with two-stage retrieval: wide HNSW search (Top-20) followed by a reranker model that scores query-chunk pairs for true relevance. It also adds relevance thresholds for abstention ("I don't know"), grounded prompts with citations, and hybrid search to catch what vector search misses.

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surajrkhonde

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