Clinically Structured Retrieval: Can a Well-Designed RAG Layer Add Value Over a Base Language Model in Clinical Oncology?
Study 1 (currently under review) found that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning both *degraded* clinical answer quality relative to an un-augmented base model in oncology. That study bounded its own retrieval conclusion explicitly: its index used 500-character chunks with 100-character overlap, small r...