Cutting RAG Token Bloat: Compression Before Retrieval in Production Pipelines
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The Token Tax on RAG Pipelines When you're running a retrieval-augmented generation system at scale, the real bottleneck isn't your embedding model or your vector index—it's the token overhead between retrieval and generation. I learned this the hard way after our agent memory service started hitti…
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Cutting RAG Token Bloat: Compression Before Retrieval in Production Pipelines