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Why Traditional RAG Scores 0% on Multi-Hop Queries — and What Two Lines of Code Changed

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## The Problem Nobody Talks About Ask your RAG system: "What award did the director of Inception win?" This requires two hops: Inception → Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan → Academy Award Your retrieval engine does hop 1 fine. But hop 2? The embedding of the original query is nowhere near "Academy Award" in vector space. The answer sits at rank 665. Your top-20 retrieval window never sees it. We tested this systematically on HotpotQA fullwik…
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DEV Community broke the news in on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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