Retrieve filings: Which response design best meets both requirements?
Retrieve current filings, verify claim support, and abstain when the documents do not substantiate an answer.
The question
A financial-document assistant must answer questions only from supplied filings. It sometimes produces plausible citations that do not support its claims. The organization requires verifiable evidence and prohibits confident answers when the filings lack support. Which response design best meets both requirements?
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- Use retrieval and answer every question confidently.Retrieval can improve grounding, but answering every question conflicts with the requirement to abstain when filings lack supporting evidence.
- Fine-tune on prior filings and cite the model’s training examples.Training examples do not establish support in the supplied filings and may produce citations unrelated to the current documents.
- Display citations generated with each answer.Displaying citations without verifying their support can preserve plausible but inaccurate references and does not prevent unsupported answers.
- Retrieve filings, verify support, and abstain when evidence is absent. ✓This design separates retrieval from answer faithfulness, verifies citations against filings, and prevents unsupported responses when evidence is missing.
The trap
A citation is useful only when it actually supports the answer; define verification and abstention explicitly. How to remember it
Retrieve current filings, verify claim support, and abstain when the documents do not substantiate an answer.
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