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Choose a Chunk Size Before You Retrieve

Chunk size decides what a retriever can ever find. Too large and the answer is diluted by irrelevant text; too small and the answer is split across pieces that never appear together. This skill covers picking a chunk size from the shape of the documents, adding overlap between neighbours, and keeping a source pointer so any retrieved chunk can be traced back.

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Chunk Size Decides What Can Ever Be Found

Choose a Chunk Size Before You Retrieve

# Pick the Split Before You Retrieve How a document is split decides what the retriever can return. A chunk that is too large buries the answer in surrounding text; a chunk that is too small cuts the answer in half and the two halves may never be retrieved together. ## Size from the shape of the d

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