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Bayesian Search Cuts RAG Latency 40% in Production Pipeline
A team rebuilt their RAG retrieval layer using adaptive chunking strategies and Bayesian search, achieving 95% recall@10 and 40% latency reduction. They replaced fixed 512-token chunks with recursive and semantic chunkers tailored to document types. The optimization moved from default embeddings to a tunable pipeline that improved both speed and accuracy.
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The piece offers practical, code-level improvements for production RAG, but the 40% latency cut is measured against a naive baseline—real-world gains depend on document diversity.
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Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% →
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