Scaling Study on RAG: BM25 Overtakes Agentic Search Beyond 10M Tokens
solyarisoftware · x · 2026-08-02
A scaling study of RAG paradigms reveals a crossover: agentic search leads at small corpora, but lexical retrieval (BM25) overtakes around 10M tokens and dominates at larger scales.
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