RAG in simple terms

Retrieval Augmented Generation explained simply.

What is RAG?

In simple terms: RAG lets a language model look things up in a library of documents before answering your question. It's like asking a smart assistant that also brings you pages from a book as part of the answer.

How does it work?

Let’s think of symbolizations.

Computers don’t understand words like humans do.

They represent and process informat…