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Advanced RAG Techniques

Distance Thresholding

Distance thresholding adds a quality check by setting a maximum allowed distance between vectors. Any result with a distance score above this threshold gets filtered out, even if it would have made the top_k cutoff. This helps remove the obvious bad matches but requires careful threshold adjustment.