#chunking

How to Choose a RAG Chunking Strategy: A Practical Guide from Fixed Splitting to Late Chunking

How to choose a RAG chunking strategy? This article analyzes the applicable scenarios and pitfalls of fixed splitting, recursive splitting, semantic chunking, structure-aware chunking, parent document retrieval, and late chunking, combining Chroma's research report and an ACL 2025 paper to help you avoid the common problem of RAG retrieving the answer but answering incompletely.