Pattern
Query transformation patterns (implementable across frameworks)
Improve retrieval quality by transforming user input before retrieval: cleaning noisy inputs (rewrite), broadening vocabulary (expansion), bridging vocabulary mismatch (HyDE), breaking compound questions (decomposition), or hedging against any single phrasing being wrong (multi-query).
Classification — Five transformation patterns: rewrite, expand, HyDE, decompose, multi-query.
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