Reducing fabricated answers: few-shot vs grounding vs fallback vs affordance vs deterministic filter

This sheet compares Few-shot examples, Grounding data, Not-found fallback, Affordance, Deterministic filter.

CriterionFew-shot examplesGrounding dataNot-found fallbackAffordanceDeterministic filter
What it doesAdds input-output pairs to condition behaviour without trainingSupplies source content so the model draws answers from itInstructs the model to say not found when the answer is absentLets the model call an external capability such as search for current factsChecks or filters the LLM output with a rules-based step

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