Instruction Aware Embeddings
Why Your Retriever is Failing and How Context Can Save It Imagine asking “I want to buy apple” – do you mean Apple Inc. stock, the latest iPhone, or simply fruit? Without context, your retriever may serve you the wrong results. 1. What Is the Problem in Your Retriever & Embedding? Modern retrievers map queries and documents into high-dimensional vectors (embeddings) and rank by cosine similarity. But when a query is ambiguous, plain embeddings struggle:...