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5/11/2026

Auto-Merging RAG: Hierarchical Retrieval ⛓️
Short summary
Auto-merging hierarchical retrieval solves RAG context fragmentation by organizing chunks into parent-child trees and merging related children into parent contexts before LLM processing. Includes medical protocol example and complete LangChain implementation.
- •Prevents incomplete context by tracking parent-child chunk relationships across large documents
- •Auto-merge logic returns full parent chunks when multiple related children are retrieved
- •Full Python implementation using LangChain, Chroma vector store, and HuggingFace embeddings
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