AI Glossary Term

What is Citations?

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.

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