How Lume Works: The Retrieval Primitives

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Author: kordlessagain

Date: 6/20/2026

Article Summary:
Lume is a Rust hybrid search engine that indexes Markdown, source code, and PDFs, and uses three independent primitives: field-aware BM25, dense GTR-T5 vectors, and a significance-scored entity graph to rank results.