Equation 23 · Part 1 · Naive, Graph, and Agentic: A Systems Comparison of RAG Architectures
Symbol k
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k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
…and diverse answers than a conventional RAG baseline specifically on query-focused summarisation over large corpora, the kind of question — “what are the main themes across this entire collection” — that a top- k chunk retriever structurally cannot answer well no matter how many times it is queried, because no fixed small set of chunks represents a corpus-wide theme [ 4 ] .
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