Retrieval Granularity as Evidence Design in Small-Model RAG Question Answering: A Diagnostic HotpotQA Study
Results align with a diagnostic perspective on chunking: using evidence at a task-appropriate level of granularity can improve grounding, auditability, and answer quality, but the observed patterns should be interpreted within the HotpotQA distractor setting, fixed generator, and tested context budgets.
Weimao Ke, Lixia Yang, Mengyang Xu
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