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Ablation study

What does “Ablation study” mean?

Ablation study: Removing or changing one component to measure how much it contributes.

Ablation study visual guide: Removing or changing one component to measure how much it contributes.
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What is an example of “Ablation study”?

Researchers disable retrieval and compare the resulting answer quality.

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