Week 2 · Academic Concept Studio
Chunking, embeddings, retrieval and grounded generation
29 Sept 2026, 17:30 GMT+5:3090 minutes · IST (Asia/Kolkata)Dr Ananya Rao
Session recap
Covered: tokens, context limits and why retrieval is needed; chunking and metadata experiment; embeddings and semantic similarity.
- Recording
Ready to watch.
- Check my understandingStart check
Explain and apply the concepts
- Next project taskOpen workspace
Concept exercises and a working retrieval component.
What you’ll build or understand
- Explain how chunking affects retrieval
- Describe what an embedding represents
- Build a grounded prompt from retrieved passages
Agenda
- 20 minTokens, context limits and why retrieval is needed
- 25 minChunking and metadata experiment
- 25 minEmbeddings and semantic similarity
- 20 minConstructing grounded model inputs
