RAPTOR - A Smarter Way to Retrieve and Use Information in AI

Mar 10, 2025·
Tuhin Sharma
Tuhin Sharma
· 1 min read
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Description

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are incredibly powerful, but they struggle to keep up with new information and understand long, complex documents. Traditional retrieval methods pull short chunks of text, often missing important context. This is where RAPTOR (Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval) comes in — a new way to retrieve and summarize information efficiently. In this article, we’ll break down what RAPTOR is, why it’s better than traditional methods, and how to implement it with a hands-on example.

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