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Retrieval & EmbeddingsEasy· Relevance· Credibility· Filtering

Your retriever’s top-5 documents are all above your rel...

A weak answer proposes raising the relevance threshold or shrinking k, which fails to address the underlying defect. A strong answer immediately clarifies that relevance and credibility are distinct. Since relevance thresholds do not account for source trustworthiness, an explicit credibility signal must be used to filter out untrusted sources regardless of their relevance score.

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