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Jun 2026
Augmenting Large Language Models with External Data Sources: A Systematic Review of Methodologies, Performance Metrics, and Information Fidelity
This review focuses specifically on Retrieval-Augmented Generation and fine-tuning, identifying them as the two dominant paradigms for integrating external knowledge: RAG for retrieval-based context injection and fine-tuning for parametric knowledge adaptation.
Soham Mukherjee, John Le, Chau Nguyen
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