AI Glossary Term

What is Multi-Query Retrieval?

Definition

A retrieval technique that rewrites the user query into several variants to improve recall.

Related terms

Retrieval Precision

The proportion of retrieved items that are relevant to the user's query.

A retrieval method that generates multiple query variants, retrieves results for each, and fuses the rankings.

Multi-Head Attention

A transformer mechanism that runs several attention operations in parallel to capture different types of relationships.

Intent Classification

Predicting the user's purpose from a text query to route it correctly.

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

A method that retrieves external knowledge and feeds it into generation at inference time.

Finding relevant documents or records from a knowledge source for a query.

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