Skills2026-03-21 · source-backed
Try asymmetric embeddings for RAG.
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Use Jina v3's task='retrieval.query' for questions and task='retrieval.passage' for documents — separate LoRA adapters encode through different projection paths, closing the query-document asymmetry gap that single-encoder models miss. Source
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