Track A: Search & Retrieval Systems

Building search engines, RAG pipelines, or recommendation systems.

Reading Order

1. * Introduction to Information Retrieval book
2. * The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond paper
3. * Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain QA paper
4. ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search paper
5. * From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach paper

Branches

After graphrag, explore:

• RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval paper
• Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique paper