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Teach models to look up relevant information before answering.

Retriever

A retriever is the component that accepts a query and returns relevant knowledge items.

Think of it like

Think of Retriever like a library system: instead of memorizing every book, find the right shelf and bring only the useful pages to the desk.

Real life

Search engines and recommendation systems use ideas related to Retriever.

SRE lens

The agent can call a retriever before asking the LLM to explain an incident.

Remember thisA retriever is the component that accepts a query and returns relevant knowledge items.
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