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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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