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A Retrieval augumented generation (RAG) approach which uses two separate methods for search:

  • An sparse retrieval approach, typically TF-IDF or BM25
  • An semantic vector embedding search
  • Alternatively, even full-text search can be used.

Thus, hybrid search combines dense and sparse retrieval. For more on sparse and dense vectors see: Vectors.