YMYash Mhaskarinretrieval.hashnode.dev·Nov 3, 2025 · 5 min readImproving RAG Retrieval: Lessons from Building and Evaluating a Hybrid PipelineIntroduction When I first built my retrieval pipeline, it seemed solid, a combination of dense embeddings and lexical search fused together with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).It worked well enough for most queries… until I started noticing subtle but ...00