Decide When to Retrieve Based on Reasoning Steps
thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-07-11
This covers Technique 4: Retrieval Timing Control.
The author suggests not retrieving only at the start of a task, but at each reasoning step checking whether the current sub-question has enough context. If so, skip retrieval; if not, retrieve again.
This approach reportedly reduces average token usage for multi-hop questions by 41%.
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