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si-008Established result

Retrieval-augmented generation conditions outputs on documents retrieved at inference time rather than on parametric memory alone.

The originating formulation combined a retriever with a generator for knowledge-intensive tasks.

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Retrieval changes the source of knowledge, not the reliability of reasoning over it. It does not eliminate fabrication.

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

Lewis et al. · 2020

The originating formulation of retrieval-augmented generation.

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