5.1 RAG Fundamentals

What RAG Is and When to Use It

Tutorial · Beginner · 21 min

Retrieval-Augmented Generation looks up relevant text at question time and hands it to the model, instead of relying on what the model absorbed during training.

By: Anacodic Team

Vector Search for Retrieval

Tutorial · Beginner · 22 min

Retrieval finds passages by comparing meaning rather than words: each passage becomes a vector, the question becomes a vector, and you rank by cosine similarity.

Includes Colab notebook

By: Anacodic Team

Anatomy of a RAG Pipeline

Tutorial · Beginner · 23 min

A RAG answer passes through six stages, and a wrong answer is usually caused by a stage the model never sees. Log each stage, then bisect.

Includes Colab notebook

By: Anacodic Team