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Home/Glossary/Parent-Document Retrieval
AI Glossary Term

What does “Parent-Document Retrieval” mean?

Definition

A retrieval pattern that searches small chunks but returns their larger parent documents for richer context.

Related terms

Retrieval
Finding relevant documents or records from a knowledge source for a query.
Knowledge Base
A curated collection of documents or records used for retrieval, support automation, or grounding responses.
Speculative Decoding
An inference acceleration method where a small draft model proposes tokens that a larger model verifies in parallel.
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)
Methods that adapt models by training a small subset of added parameters.
Prompt
The input instructions and context provided to a generative model.
Prompt Injection
An attack pattern where malicious instructions are inserted into model inputs or retrieved content.

Learn more in our free guides

Retrieval QualityDocument AIMusic Information RetrievalDense Passage Retrieval

See also

Multi-Query RetrievalBeam SearchRAG-FusionRepetition PenaltySelf-PlayFrequency PenaltyPost-trainingPresence Penalty
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