Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8C] - Structured output is the start of validation, not the end: check the evidence, accept not-found, loop the feedback The post Validating the RAG Answer Before the User Sees It: Spans, Quotes, and the Feedback Loop appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8A] - The schema is the contract: every field is a question the pipeline asks the model, and every answer is checkable The post Stop Returning Text from RAG: The Typed Answer Contract That Prevents Hallucination appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #11] - When the first answer points elsewhere in the document, the pipeline loops back to fetch the linked context The post Loop Engineering for Cross-References: When RAG Answers ‘see Section 7.
The article discusses the importance of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system providing clear evidence when it states that information is not present in a document. It outlines four distinct types of evidence that should accompany such a claim to avoid presenting a confident but incorrect answer or an unsupported “no answer.” The piece emphasizes that each evidence type serves as a safeguard against misinformation in enterprise document intelligence.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post A Production RAG Pipeline in Action: Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #6quinquies] - Prompt engineering, then context engineering, then loop engineering.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #12] - The category of question most RAG pipelines silently fail on, and the pipeline shape that handles them The post Loop Engineering for Listing Questions: When the Answer Is Every Passage, Not the Top One appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post One RAG Pipeline, Four Very Different PDFs: Same Four Bricks, Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #6a] - Why a user question deserves the same parsing as the document, and how it splits into a retrieval brief and a generation brief before either runs The post RAG Questions Need Parsing Too: Turn the User’s String Into Briefs for Retrieval and Generation appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #6bis] - Ask one focused clarification, learn the default from the answer, stay silent next time The post When RAG Users Ask Vague Questions: Clarify Once, Learn the Default appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The article discusses how the reliability mechanisms added to large language model (LLM) pipelines can lead to confident but incorrect outputs, especially when the correct answer is absent. It examines the behavior of pipelines in such scenarios and highlights the paradox where safeguards intended to improve accuracy may actually reinforce errors. The piece underscores the importance of understanding pipeline responses when faced with missing or ambiguous information.
The article explains that enterprise document intelligence can be categorized into three distinct corpus types, each requiring a specific architecture. It outlines how to determine the shape of a document collection through three key questions. The piece also discusses the costs associated with building a system for the incorrect corpus type.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #1] The smallest version of RAG that actually works, on a real PDF, with grounded answers and the source lines highlighted.