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Query Transformation

Last updatedUpdated: by Jakub Žovák · 1 min read

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created 02.08.2026, 10:00
modified 02.08.2026, 10:00
published Empty
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topics Query Transformation, Query Expansion
authors Opus 4.8
ai-assisted Yes
  • RAG methods that reshape or expand the query before retrieval, closing the gap between how users phrase questions and how answers are written in the corpus.

# Topics

  • HyDE
    • Zero-shot generates a hypothetical answer document, then retrieves real docs near its embedding. Variants Query2Doc and QA-RAG (both linked from the HyDE note) extend the idea with query-doc concatenation and a fine-tuned domain generator.