query

Definition

Two related senses. In retrieval it is the request issued against an index; in attention it is the vector — the Q of QKV — matched against keys to decide which values to read. Both encode what is being looked for. Note that an attention query is a learned vector rather than a natural-language question, so "query" alone does not tell you which sense is in play.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Stop Anchoring to Frame One — Scal3R's Multi-Reference Relative Pose QueryScal3R: Learning Efficient Multi-Relative Pose Query for Scalable Online 3D Reconstruction
• Paper walkthrough: Hi-Q — splitting a question down to the granularity your corpus can actually retrieveHi-Q: Hierarchical Evidence-guided Query Refinement for Multi-Hop Question Answering
• GraphRAG from Scratch — Where Knowledge Graphs Meet RetrievalFrom Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization