Pattern
Contextual chunk embedding (Contextual Retrieval, late chunking, contextualized-chunk models)
Embed and index each chunk together with the context of the document it came from, so a chunk that says "revenue grew by 3%" still retrieves for a query that names the company and the quarter the chunk never mentions.
Classification Indexing technique that gives each chunk's embedding and index entry the context of its whole document.
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