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Zero-Result Recovery in Agentic Search: Progressive Filter Relaxation
Handle zero results in agentic RAG search by relaxing hard payload filters progressively, then falling back to a broad semantic query.
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Handle zero results in agentic RAG search by relaxing hard payload filters progressively, then falling back to a broad semantic query.
Qdrant applies payload filters during HNSW graph traversal, not after — so filtered queries stay fast and always return a full top-k.
On normalized embeddings all three metrics rank identically, so pick dot product for speed; magnitude only matters with unnormalized vectors.
Moving a production cloud RAG pipeline on-device: the shape transfers, but index scale, embedder size, and re-ranking budgets do not.