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A Citation Can Be Right Without Being Grounded

Mechanistic evidence from Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct shows why a correct-looking RAG citation should not be treated as proof that the cited source actually drove the answer.

September 19, 2026 · 8 min · Zelina
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Contain the Error Before It Becomes a Decision

HALO reframes hallucination control as a layered enterprise assurance problem, with evidence showing that verification signals must be assigned and combined according to workload rather than accumulated indiscriminately.

September 19, 2026 · 6 min · Zelina
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Make Reranking a Training Problem, Not a Production Tax

BAR-RAG suggests that RAG systems may improve more by training on evidence matched to generator competence than by adding another always-on production reranker.

September 19, 2026 · 8 min · Zelina
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Memory Has a Budget: Compress Long-Running Context by Value, Not Age

Adaptive context compression suggests a tiered way to control prompt growth in persistent assistants while protecting the history most likely to matter later.

September 19, 2026 · 6 min · Zelina
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Rerank the Regime, Not the Corpus

A training-free RAG reranker can suppress keyword-stuffed false positives, but its value depends on identifying the retrieval regime before deployment.

September 19, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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The Graph Is Not the Guardrail: Route Retrieval by Failure Mode

A CTI benchmark shows why retrieval architecture should be chosen by question type, failure profile, and operational cost rather than average answer quality alone.

September 19, 2026 · 8 min · Zelina
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Train the Graph Before You Query It: SelfGraphRAG Turns Structure Into Supervision

SelfGraphRAG shows how an unlabeled knowledge graph can generate its own retriever-training data, shifting part of RAG quality control from query time to indexing.

September 19, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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Guide, Don’t Guess: Reallocating Reasoning Compute with Small-Model Hints

HintMR shows that targeted guidance can unlock much more reasoning performance from compact models, offering a structured alternative to larger models or brute-force sampling.

September 18, 2026 · 6 min · Zelina
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More Retrieval Is Not Free: Price Every RAG Component Before You Ship It

A medical RAG benchmark shows why retrieval components should earn their latency and compute cost through measured marginal gains, not architectural sophistication.

September 18, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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Reasoning Labels Don’t Travel: What UrduBench Changes About Model Selection

UrduBench shows why Urdu model procurement should test workload fit, prompting behavior, and language stability instead of relying on parameter count or reasoning labels.

September 18, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina