The Evidence Path

Research

Evidence, methods, technical history, decisions, and reference material.

  1. Research method and scope742 words
  2. The complete RAG field map4,736 words
  3. Mathematical and systems primer for RAG2,760 words
  4. A chronological technical history of retrieval-augmented generation5,536 words
  5. The RAG frontier, 2024–20264,537 words
  6. Corpus engineering, document intelligence, chunking, and indexes4,261 words
  7. Retrieval, query transformation, fusion, reranking, and evidence selection4,307 words
  8. Context engineering, retrieval-conditioned generation, grounding, and citations3,238 words
  9. Training and optimizing every RAG component3,469 words
  10. Graph, hierarchical, structured, multimodal, and domain-specific RAG3,305 words
  11. Adaptive and agentic RAG, long-term memory, and temporal knowledge2,813 words
  12. Security, privacy, access control, provenance, and governance for RAG3,390 words
  13. Evaluating RAG: metrics, benchmarks, failure modes, and risk controls3,527 words
  14. Production RAG systems: architecture, serving, observability, cost, and operations3,182 words
  15. RAG technique decision guide1,488 words
  16. Chronological index of RAG and its technical substrate5,437 words
  17. RAG glossary3,106 words
  18. RAG coverage and verification matrix4,206 words