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The Copy Ceiling: An Input-Exposure Control for Ontology-Grounded Generation over Curated Corpora
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers propose exposure accounting to measure whether language models actually reason over retrieved knowledge or simply copy visible context.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building retrieval-augmented generation systems who need honest evaluation of whether grounding actually improves reasoning.
- Watch out
- The method identifies what was exposed in context but cannot definitively prove reasoning occurred; most grounded gains disappear when measured against copy baseline.
- language model
- reasoning
- rag
- retrieval
- eval
The patterns behind this
- OWL Ontological Reasoning
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Generative UI (Agent-Rendered Interfaces)
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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