Towards Data Science July 6, 2026 By Kezhan Shi

Validating the RAG Answer Before the User Sees It: Spans, Quotes, and the Feedback Loop

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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 .

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