Metadata and filtered retrieval

Metadata turns semantic search into scoped semantic search. Filtering by source, type, or date removes whole classes of wrong answer.

Lesson 2.212m 24sAdvanced7.2k students

Chapters

12:24
  1. 0:00Metadata problem with RAG
  2. 0:45Using Lang Extract for Metadata Extraction
  3. 1:46Building the Retrieval Augmented Generation System
  4. 2:22Setting Up the Environment and Sample Data
  5. 3:27Creating the Metadata Extraction Pipeline
  6. 6:56Implementing Metadata Filters in Vector Store
  7. 8:51Running the Example and Viewing Results

What this lesson covers

  • Attach source, type, and timestamp to every chunk
  • Filter before ranking to cut the candidate set
  • Use metadata to attribute answers back to a source

This lesson sits in Ingestion and Indexing, part of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scratch. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will

  • Attach source, type, and timestamp to every chunk
  • Filter before ranking to cut the candidate set
  • Use metadata to attribute answers back to a source

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