RAG Overview
A visual overview of retrieval, ranking, and generation flow in a RAG pipeline.
This post is a high-level sketch of a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline. The focus is structural: what the major steps are, how retrieval and ranking fit together, and where generation actually happens.
What It Covers
- query handling
- retrieval and ranking stages
- prompt assembly
- model generation
- how these pieces relate in one pipeline
I use this kind of sketch as a quick mental model before getting into implementation detail.