PageIndex: Eliminate Vector Databases and Achieve 98.7% Accuracy on Financial Documents with Reasoning-Based RAG
PageIndex: Eliminate Vector Databases and Achieve 98.7% Accuracy on Financial Documents with Reasoning-Based RAG GitHub Stars: 29.1k+ | Forks: 2.4k+ | Language: Python | License: Apache-2.0 (implied from open-source repo) Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has a dirty secret: similarity is not relevance. When you embed a 200-page financial report into a vector database and retrieve chunks by cosine similarity, you are gambling that semantic proximity equals informational importance. It usually does not. Enter PageIndex—a vectorless, reasoning-based RAG system that throws out the vector database entirely and replaces it with a hierarchical tree index navigated by LLM reasoning. ...