Memory · Retrieval
RAG / Direct Vector Search
Embed the query, run vector similarity search over the memory store, inject the top-k matches.
Verified against arxiv.org
How it works
Embed the query, run vector similarity search over the memory store, inject the top-k matches.
At a glance
StageRetrieval
PhaseRead
Used byMem0 · Zep · LangChain retrievers · most vector-DB memory
Trade-off
Recall depends on embedding quality; irrelevant top-k or missed facts poison context.
Basis
Verified against
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401 The corpus does not rewrite vendor documentation. Where copy is quoted verbatim it is marked as such and attributed to its source.