Advanced Retrieval Strategies

Main Advanced Retrieval Strategies

There are a variety of more advanced retrieval strategies you may wish to try, each with different benefits:

• Reranking

• Recursive retrieval

• Embedded tables

• Small-to-big retrieval

See our full retrievers module guide for a comprehensive list of all retrieval strategies, broken down into different categories.

• Basic retrieval from each index

• Advanced retrieval and search

• Auto-Retrieval

• Knowledge Graph Retrievers

• Composed/Hierarchical Retrievers

• and more!

More resources are below.

Query Transformations

A user query can be transformed before it enters a pipeline (query engine, agent, and more). See resources below on query transformations:

• Query Transform Cookbook
• Query Transformations

Composable Retrievers

Every retriever is capable of retrieving and running other objects, including

• other retrievers

• query engines

• query pipelines

• other nodes

For more details, check out the guide below.

• Composable Objects

Third-Party Resources

Here are some third-party resources on advanced retrieval strategies.

• DeepMemory (Activeloop)
• Weaviate Vector Store - Hybrid Search
• Pinecone Vector Store - Hybrid Search