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Status: Unchecked Topic: Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy Clear all

1 claim from 1 paper

  1. Engineering › Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy

    Affordance-Compiled Intelligence: Observable-Only Cognitive Impedance Matching for No-Meta LLM-Integrated Systems

    Lewis, Perez, Piktus et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

    The paper introduces retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which combines a pre-trained seq2seq model with a searchable Wikipedia index, and tests it on knowledge-intensive language tasks.

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    1. UncheckedRAG models, fine-tuned on knowledge-intensive tasks, set state-of-the-art results on three open-domain question-answering tasks, per the paper.“We fine-tune and evaluate our models on a wide range of knowledge-intensive NLP tasks and set the state-of-the-art on three open domain QA tasks, outperforming parametric seq2seq models and task-specific retrieve-and-extract architectures.”

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