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RAG — Glossary

Retrieval-augmented generation: retrieving evidence to ground model answers.

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RAG systems embed and index documents, retrieve relevant chunks for a query, and condition an LLM on that evidence—often with citations. Quality depends on chunking and retrieval as much as the generator.

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