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Citations
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Citations
” mean?
Definition
References to source passages or documents included in a model's response to support its claims.
Related terms
Retrieval
Finding relevant documents or records from a knowledge source for a query.
Groundedness
The degree to which an AI response is supported by source data or retrieved evidence.
Knowledge Base
A curated collection of documents or records used for retrieval, support automation, or grounding responses.
Inference-Time Compute
The amount of processing power consumed while producing each response.
Instruction Tuning
Fine-tuning a model on instruction-response pairs to improve task following.
Open-Source Model
A model released with public weights or code for inspection, adaptation, and reuse.
Learn more in our free guides
Grounding and Citations
See also
Factuality
Watermarking
GSM8K
Mid-training
HumanEval
Post-training
MMLU
Self-Play
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