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[Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)

# Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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arXiv paper (2020) "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks", introducing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

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Category: [Context Engineering](/context-engineering/index.md)
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