Published on January 14, 2026, this summary describes a CMU researchers’ study of expanding the retrieval corpus in RAG as an alternative to scaling up the language model.
Published on January 14, 2026, the post summarizes the paper “Less LLM, More Documents: Searching for Improved RAG” by CMU researchers. The work evaluates whether expanding the document corpus used for retrieval can be an alternative to increasing the language model. According to the post, a medium-sized model with a large corpus can match a larger model with a smaller corpus.
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