Definition
The systematic maintenance of source integrity, conversational state, and metadata relevance throughout the retrieval-to-generation lifecycle to ensure model outputs remain grounded. Trade-offs involve a tension between maximizing context richness for accuracy and minimizing token counts to reduce latency and inference costs.
Distinguishing the active management of information flow from the passive capacity of a model's Context Window.
"A relay race where the baton (information) must be passed between runners (pipeline stages) without being dropped, swapped, or losing its original markings."
- Context Window(Prerequisite)
- Sliding Window Memory(Component)
- Grounding(Component)
- Metadata Filtering(Component)
Conceptual Overview
The systematic maintenance of source integrity, conversational state, and metadata relevance throughout the retrieval-to-generation lifecycle to ensure model outputs remain grounded. Trade-offs involve a tension between maximizing context richness for accuracy and minimizing token counts to reduce latency and inference costs.
Disambiguation
Distinguishing the active management of information flow from the passive capacity of a model's Context Window.
Visual Analog
A relay race where the baton (information) must be passed between runners (pipeline stages) without being dropped, swapped, or losing its original markings.