Advanced Chunking Techniques: Semantic & LLM-Based Chunking (Simply!) Explained

Weaviate vector database · Beginner ·🔍 RAG & Vector Search ·8mo ago

Skills: Advanced RAG90%

Fixed-size chunking is breaking your RAG system 💀 When you split text into arbitrary 200-word chunks, you're destroying the natural flow of information. In this short video, Femke goes through some advanced chunking techniques (semantic chunking, and LLM-based chunking) that can significantly improve your retrieval quality. But here's where it gets interesting: Late chunking - this technique changes the game, more about that one in the next video. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:13 Pitfalls of Basic Chunking Techniques 00:25 Semantic Chunking 00:45 LLM-Based Chunking 👉 Get your copy of the free advanced RAG ebook: https://weaviate.io/ebooks/advanced-rag-techniques?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=rag&utm_content=video_post_268003094 Other videos you might like👇 Simple chunking techniques: https://youtu.be/HJHSNVqQBJI Paper review video: Late chunking improves context recall in RAG pipelines https://youtu.be/buzWGXOydD8 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ CONNECT WITH US ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ - Visit http://weaviate.io/ - Star us on GitHub https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate - Stay updated and subscribe to our newsletter: https://newsletter.weaviate.io/ - Try out Weaviate Cloud Services for free here: https://console.weaviate.cloud/ Got a question? - Forum: https://forum.weaviate.io/ - Slack: https://weaviate.io/slack Connect with us on - Twitter: https://twitter.com/weaviate_io - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weaviate-io/

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Chapters (4)

Introduction

0:13 Pitfalls of Basic Chunking Techniques

0:25 Semantic Chunking

0:45 LLM-Based Chunking

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