Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Fixed-size chunking is breaking your RAG system 💀

When you split text into arbitrary 200-word chunks, you're destroying the natural flow of information.

In this short video, Femke goes through some advanced chunking techniques (semantic chunking, and LLM-based chunking) that can significantly improve your retrieval quality.

But here's where it gets interesting:

Late chunking - this technique changes the game, more about that one in the next video.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:13 Pitfalls of Basic Chunking Techniques
00:25 Semantic Chunking
00:45 LLM-Based Chunking

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Other videos you might like👇

Simple chunking techniques:
youtu.be/HJHSNVqQBJI

Paper review video: Late chunking improves context recall in RAG pipelines
youtu.be/buzWGXOydD8

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