Equation 7 · Part 6 · Naive, Graph, and Agentic: A Systems Comparison of RAG Architectures
Symbol p_eta
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ta 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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Start with the architecture that gives the pattern its name. A query is encoded, a retriever returns its top- k passages against a fixed index, and a generator conditions on those passages to produce one answer. No step revisits an earlier one. Lewis and colleagues’ original formulation makes the mechanism explicit: writing x for the query, y for the output, and z for a retrieved passage drawn from a top- k set , the model marginalises over that set, . with retriever parameters and generator parameters [ 1 ] . One retrieval call, one generation pass, and the entire system’s dependence on the corpus runs through that single set …
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