Re:Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG ...
by zbyforgotp on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:50AM
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Traditional does not equate original. The original technique was never used widely and cannot be called the traditional way.
Technically this is incorrect. The original RAG paper used a seq2seq generator (BART) and involved two methods: RAG sequence and RAG token.
RAG sequence used the same fixed documents and appended them to the input query (note, this is different from a decoder-only model). RAG token generates each token based on a different document.
I only nitpick this because if someone is going to invent new fancy-sounding variants of RAG they should at least get the basics right.