Information Retrievalcs
The field of finding material relevant to a query — indexes, ranking, precision/recall.
Compile-time AI is IR inverted: instead of retrieving at query time, it pre-compiles the index/ranking once. Understanding IR explains why the runtime can be a thin client.
Where it appears
- SKCE foundation for rag
- vector-search
Descend
Prerequisites
Dependencies
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Foundations
Historical evolution
From inverted indexes (1960s) to BM25 to neural/vector retrieval.
Implementation details
Search engines compile inverted indexes at crawl time and serve queries with zero inference — the exact pattern SKCE copies for knowledge.
Sources
- [2026-07-11-knowledge-compiler-compiling-human-knowledge-into-static-semantic-artifacts] 2026-07-11-knowledge-compiler-compiling-human-knowledge-into-static-semantic-artifacts
- [2026-07-11-knowledge-compiler-compiling-human-knowledge-into-static-semantic-artifacts] 2026-07-11-knowledge-compiler-compiling-human-knowledge-into-static-semantic-artifacts