Equation 27 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Production RAG
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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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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Three. Deduplication before context assembly will move from a bespoke pipeline step into framework defaults, because the finding that it costs measurable context budget for no measurable benefit is easy to reproduce and cheap to act on once measured. Disconfirmed if major RAG frameworks in 2028 still assemble top- k context with no redundancy check.
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