RAG Context Compression: Headroom Cuts Retrieval Token Costs by 57% Without Accuracy Loss
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RAG Context Compression: Headroom Cuts Retrieval Token Costs by 57% Without Accuracy Loss When building RAG systems, the token economics hit you fast. A single document retrieval query can easily pack 10K-50K tokens of context into your prompt—search results, metadata, chunked paragraphs—and most o…
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RAG Context Compression: Headroom Cuts Retrieval Token Costs by 57% Without Accuracy Loss