Cross-encoder reranking

A two-stage retrieval refinement where a heavier cross-encoder rescores the top candidate documents jointly against the query to sharpen relevance before they enter the context window.

grounded in: Established two-stage RAG technique (cross-encoder rerankers) that deepens the existing retrieval / agentic-rag concepts.

Connected concepts

Retrieval-grounded generation, Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, LLM-as-judge