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Chroma

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Basic and applied research for search, retrieval, agents, and context engineering.

AI / MLDatabases

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5 from 29 May 2024 to 26 Mar 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. March 2026Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search AgentRetrieval pipelines typically operate in a single pass, which poses a problem when the information required to answer a question is spread across multiple documents or requires intermediate reasoni...

2025 2

  1. July 2025Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM PerformanceLarge Language Models (LLMs) are typically presumed to process context uniformly—that is, the model should handle the 10,000th token just as reliably as the 100th. However, in practice, this assump...
  2. April 2025Generative BenchmarkingIn traditional software systems, evaluation typically relies on deterministic logic: given a fixed input, the output is known and reproducible. In contrast, AI systems produce probabilistic results...

2024 2

  1. July 2024Evaluating Chunking Strategies for RetrievalDespite document chunking being virtually ubiquitous as a pre-processing step, little work has been done to investigate its impact on retrieval performance. This is partially due to the structure o...
  2. May 2024Embedding AdaptersRetrieval accuracy is an important determinant of AI application performance. However, many approaches to improving retrieval accuracy require large labeled corpora, which are often not available t...