Metadata and filtered retrieval
Metadata turns semantic search into scoped semantic search. Filtering by source, type, or date removes whole classes of wrong answer.
- 12m
- Advanced
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What this lesson covers
- Attach source, type, and timestamp to every chunk
- Filter before ranking to cut the candidate set
- Use metadata to attribute answers back to a source
This lesson sits in Ingestion and Indexing, part of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scratch. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.
In this lesson you will:
- Attach source, type, and timestamp to every chunk
- Filter before ranking to cut the candidate set
- Use metadata to attribute answers back to a source
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