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RAG Techniques

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

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LEANN

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[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

12K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add StarTrail-org/LEANN
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LLPhant

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LLPhant - A comprehensive PHP Generative AI Framework using OpenAI GPT 4. Inspired by Langchain

1.7K starsMay 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePHPVector Search
$ npx skills add LLPhant/LLPhant
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Generative AI For Beginners

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21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

112K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
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Txtai

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πŸ’‘ All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
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Large Language Model Notebooks Course

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 98

Practical course about Large Language Models.

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$ npx skills add peremartra/Large-Language-Model-Notebooks-Course
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PageIndex

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πŸ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

33K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
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Cognee

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Memory platform for AI Agents in 6 lines of code

18K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
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Databend

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Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. β€” rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

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$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend
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Vespa

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The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa
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Genkit

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Open-source framework for building AI-powered apps in JavaScript, Go, and Python, built and used in production by Google

6.1K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add genkit-ai/genkit
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Examples

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Jupyter Notebooks to help you get hands-on with Pinecone vector databases

3.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add pinecone-io/examples
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Pixeltable

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Declarative and Incremental Backend for Multimodal AI Applications

1.6K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add pixeltable/pixeltable
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Milvus

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Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

45K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoVector Search
$ npx skills add milvus-io/milvus
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Qdrant

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Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

32K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
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Lancedb

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLVector Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb
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Oceanbase

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

The Fastest Distributed Database for Transactional, Analytical, and AI Workloads.

10K starsJun 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase

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