Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation. The model retrieves documents at question time and writes an answer grounded in them. Under RAG your page competes to be RETRIEVED, which is a different problem from being in the training data.
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Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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