PageIndex
Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
PageIndex is an innovative open-source framework that reimagines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by eliminating conventional vector similarity search and instead building hierarchical semantic indexes that mirror a document’s natural structure. Rather than chunking text and embedding it into a vector database, PageIndex constructs a tree-structured index — similar to a detailed, AI-enhanced table of contents — that a large language model can traverse to locate the most relevant sections of long documents. ...