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A mental model for the evolution of retrieval and Ranking systems

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I’ve been working on a deeper write-up on retrieval systems and drew this diagram to organize the space. The progression I’m using is: Lexical → Collaborative/Behavioral → Learned Sparse → Dense/Two-Tower → Hybrid → Multi-Vector/Multimodal → Generative/Agentic Retrieval The part I find most interes…

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    A mental model for the evolution of retrieval and Ranking systems
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    A mental model for the evolution of retrieval and Ranking systems

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