An AI developer benchmarked seven Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines on real banking documents and technical manuals, finding that SEQUOIA, which combines RAPTOR tree retrieval with step-back prompting, consistently outperformed alternatives by about 15% recall improvement without added latency. The approach clusters document chunks hierarchically, summarizes context, generalizes queries before retrieval, and uses local LLMs for generation and evaluation, enabling cost-effective prototyping without GPT-4 API usage. Graph-based RAG methods were found costly and less effective in production scenarios.
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