AI engineering glossary · RAG vector search
What is Conversational RAG?
Conversational RAG: Retrieval-based question answering applied to multi-turn chat, where each new message may depend on earlier turns. Systems rewrite follow-ups into standalone queries and manage history so that retrieval sees the user's real intent.
Conversational RAG: an example
The user asks 'What about for seniors?' and the system rewrites it as 'Fixed deposit interest rates for senior citizens'.
Related terms
More RAG vector search terms
- Corrective RAG
- Cosine distance
- Dense retrieval
- DiskANN
- Document loader
- Domain adaptation of embeddings
- efConstruction
- efSearch
Where you learn it
Conversational RAG is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.