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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
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retrieval-augmented generation

/rɪˈtriːvəl ɔːɡˌmɛntɪd ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. An architecture that retrieves relevant documents at query time and conditions a model's answer on them.

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See also
  • chunkingCutting the policy in half exactly where the exception lived.
  • embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
  • groundingAsking the model to cite a source, which works only if the organization keeps one.
  • vector databaseThe new system of record for documents no one would govern in the old system of record.