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:

Key outcome: Understand the evolution from lexical to neural to hybrid retrieval.