Your Vector Search Knows “Bank” Is Related to “Bank.” It Doesn’t Know Which Bank You Mean.
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Vector search is very good at similarity. Similarity is not always the same thing as meaning. That distinction starts becoming expensive when retrieval feeds an LLM. Consider: financial bank river bank They share the same word. A similarity system has every reason to place them near each other. A u…
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- 2026-09-29 00:04 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Your Vector Search Knows “Bank” Is Related to “Bank.” It Doesn’t Know Which Bank You Mean.