180 RAG Citation Defects Only a Free id Lookup Catches, 60 Only the Grader Does: Neither Subsumes the Other
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A RAG answer says [c091] and everybody relaxes. There are two checks you can run on that bracket, and they catch different things. Citation resolution is pure code: is c091 actually one of the chunks we assembled for this question? Zero model calls. Faithfulness is model-scored: does the assembled…
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180 RAG Citation Defects Only a Free id Lookup Catches, 60 Only the Grader Does: Neither Subsumes the Other