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Retrieval-augmented generation

What the term means here

Conditioning generation on documents fetched at inference time from an external store.

Why it matters

Separates what a system knows from what its weights encode, which changes what a capability measurement is measuring.

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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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