How do teams validate citations in production RAG? Duplicate-source checking called too narrow
No-Profile-6178 · reddit · 2026-09-20
A follow-up from the same author, focused on citation validation practice for citation-heavy RAG in production.
- The author built a lightweight checker for the 'multiple citations, one origin' failure mode; it catches structural copies and some close rewrites but not deeper semantic rewrites
- Three reviewers felt duplicate-source detection alone is too narrow to be useful
- They list dimensions teams might actually check—citation existence, whether the source supports the claim, duplicate/shared-origin sources, source quality, broken links—and ask which have caused real rework or client complaints, not just theoretical concern
Useful for teams building QA processes around RAG deliverables.
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