Attached are slides+notebook from my talk “Introducing GAR (Generative AI Augmented Retrieval)” at the Systematically Improving RAG Applications course.

GenerativeAI Augmented Retrieval uses Generative AI to make boring-old search better.

Enjoy!

Slides

first page of slides

Notebooks

I encourage you to play with the data here and share your learnings. You’re libel to teach me a thing or two!

Baseline data from the WANDS (Wayfair Furniture Search) dataset.

Didn’t work

Shooting in the dark with random ideas usually doesn’t work. You need to look at your data.

Actually works

(Works becuse I looked at teh data and solved actual problems present in the BM25 baseline :) )


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