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The Distracting Effect: Understanding Irrelevant Passages in RAG

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Main Authors:	Amiraz, Chen, Cuconasu, Florin, Filice, Simone, Karnin, Zohar
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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