An AI answer may include a citation and still be wrong. The cited passage might discuss the same topic without supporting the specific claim. Evidence verification adds a separate step that checks whether the retrieved text truly justifies the generated statement. Relevance is not the same as support A search result can be highly relevant…
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A Practical Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation, usually called RAG, combines a language model with an external knowledge source. Instead of relying only on information stored during training, the system retrieves relevant evidence and includes it in the model prompt. The basic RAG pipeline Documents are divided into useful chunks and converted into vector representations. At question time, the query…