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  1. Reference
  2. Metadata filter

Glossary

Metadata filter

A condition on fields such as department, date or permission applied to a vector search. Applied after the search it can return fewer than k results. See post-filtering.

Where it is explained

  • Vector databasesEmbeddings and vector search
  • Better retrievalRetrieval-augmented generation

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search
  • Bi-encoder
  • Context assembly
  • Cross-encoder
  • ef_search
  • Exact search
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