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System DesignHard· Compliance· Latency Optimization· Data Engineering

Legal wants every claim in generated answers traceable...

The conflict between compliance and latency can be resolved by restructuring the system. Instead of walking the citation chain at query time, perform an offline pass to compute and cache the earliest origin date for each document. This allows the system to meet the compliance requirement without incurring a performance penalty during the retrieval phase.

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