Definition
The process within a RAG pipeline of mapping generated response fragments back to specific retrieved source chunks to ensure factual traceability. It involves an architectural trade-off between attribution granularity (sentence-level vs. document-level) and increased inference latency/token consumption.
Not academic bibliography formatting (APA/MLA), but technical source-to-token mapping for hallucination reduction.
"A digital 'paper trail' where every sentence in a legal brief is connected by a string to a specific highlighted passage in an open law book."
- Groundedness(Validation metric)
- Hallucination(Risk mitigated)
- Source Attribution(Functional synonym)
- Chunking(Prerequisite for granular mapping)
Conceptual Overview
The process within a RAG pipeline of mapping generated response fragments back to specific retrieved source chunks to ensure factual traceability. It involves an architectural trade-off between attribution granularity (sentence-level vs. document-level) and increased inference latency/token consumption.
Disambiguation
Not academic bibliography formatting (APA/MLA), but technical source-to-token mapping for hallucination reduction.
Visual Analog
A digital 'paper trail' where every sentence in a legal brief is connected by a string to a specific highlighted passage in an open law book.