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  "url": "https://feed7.dev/p/2607-11783v1-170rjdc",
  "title": "How Temperature Shapes Ideological Discourse in Retrieval-Augmented Generation?",
  "why_included": "A RAG study finds that retrieved ideology carries into answers and varies with sampling temperature, so source audits and decoding tests should be evaluated together.",
  "summary": "Researchers built a RAG corpus from **1,117 COVID-19 treatment articles**, identified **three ideological discourses**, and compared generated answers with ideological reference texts at different sampling temperatures.",
  "practical_implication": "Treat retrieval content and decoding configuration as one evaluation surface. The study found **highest discourse alignment at moderate temperatures**, while low-temperature outputs transferred less of the retrieved discourse.",
  "agent_context": "Researchers built a RAG corpus from **1,117 COVID-19 treatment articles**, identified **three ideological discourses**, and compared generated answers with ideological reference texts at different sampling temperatures.\n\nTreat retrieval content and decoding configuration as one evaluation surface. The study found **highest discourse alignment at moderate temperatures**, while low-temperature outputs transferred less of the retrieved discourse.\n\nThis is an arXiv study using ideological questions and one domain-specific corpus. It shows measurable interaction between retrieval and temperature, but does not establish that lower temperature removes bias or generalizes to every RAG system.",
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  "uncertainty": [
    "This is an arXiv study using ideological questions and one domain-specific corpus. It shows measurable interaction between retrieval and temperature, but does not establish that lower temperature removes bias or generalizes to every RAG system."
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