foundational retrieval-foundations

The Retrieval Problem: Relevance, Similarity, and the Geometry of Scores

On the roadmap

This topic is part of the formalRAG curriculum and is not yet published — it is currently a stub so that links from neighboring topics resolve. See the curriculum roadmap for where it sits in the dependency graph.

In the meantime, the published pilot topic BM25 and the Binary Independence Model demonstrates the three-pillar treatment this topic will receive.