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Platforms & Practice 10 min

Retrieval Is a Ranking Problem: Why Your RAG System Doesn't Need a Better Embedding Model

Teams tune the embedding model and the vector database, then wonder why answers are still wrong. Both are the least important parts of the stack. Retrieval is a two-stage ranking problem, and information retrieval solved the shap…

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Reasoning & Evaluation 24 min

The Leaderboard Is Not Your Corpus: Why Top-Ranked Embedding Models Disappoint in Production

Embedding models are chosen from a leaderboard more often than from an experiment, and the leaderboard now publishes training splits for its own test sets. Between contamination, task-family averaging and geometry no benchmark me…

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