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Matt Yeung
Personal blog · mattyyeung.github.io · on HN as mattyyeungaihealth
Matt Yeung's personal blog at mattyyeung.github.io covers ai and health. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's deterministic-quoting post as an example of getting LLMs to cite exact strings from a source document, a pattern commenters connect to RAG citations and Anthropic's API citations feature.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-05-05
What Hacker News says?
You may be interested "Deterministic Quoting"[1]. This doesn't completely "solve" hallucinations, but I would argue that we do get "good enough" in several applications Disclosure: author on [1] [1] https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
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on “What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs”Submitted Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare as a story · 117 points
HN discussionI don't see how a RAG that can cite sources from a document doesn't addresses this already (example [1])? Although I admit it's not a perfect solution yet... [1] https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
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on “I want flexible queries, not RAG”Submitted Hallucination-Free RAG: How We Bring Trust to Healthcare AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, I think they fine-tuned their model to be better at the pattern where you output citations that reference exact strings from the input. Previously that's been a prompting trick, e.g. here: https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
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on “Citations on the Anthropic API”Submitted Show HN: Greenforecast.au: 7-day forecast for renewable energy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCan quotations be hallucinated? Or are you using something like "deterministic quoting"[1]? Disclosure: author on that work. [1] https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
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on “Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension”