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How to wire hybrid search for RAG
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Keyword + vector + re-rank in a minimal pipeline.
Keyword + vector + re-rank in a minimal pipeline.
#Steps
1. Run BM25 (or keyword index) for top 20
2. Run vector search for top 20 on same corpus
3. Merge by doc ID, dedupe chunks
4. Re-rank merged set with cross-encoder or LLM scorer
5. Pass top 5 chunks to generation prompt
#Metadata filters
Add `product`, `version`, or `region` filters before search when docs are tagged.