Chunking

Use this section when you want the chunking material broken into focused pages instead of one long guide.

In this section

• Strategy landscape Understand the major chunking families, from fixed-size and recursive splitters to semantic, late, and hierarchical chunking.
• Common failure modes See the recurring problems that appear even when the boundary-selection logic gets more sophisticated.
• POMA chunksets Learn how POMA changes the retrieval unit from isolated chunks to hierarchy-preserving chunksets.
• Strategy comparison Review the full comparison table across chunker strategies, retrieval units, knobs, and tradeoffs.

Prefer the narrative version?

• RAG chunking guide