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Chunking — Why How You Split Documents Decides Retrieval Quality

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The previous article explained how embeddings convert text into vectors so similar meanings land close together in vector space. Before you can embed a document, though, you have to decide how to cut it up. That decision — chunk size, chunk strategy, chunk overlap — has more impact on retrieval qua…

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  1. 2026-10-07 14:30 · DEV Community — AI
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