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The key difference between RAG and fine-tuning is: with RAG, updating documents equals updating knowledge, minute-level timeliness can be achieved, each answer's source can be traced, and access control can filter by user identity at the retrieval layer; fine-tuning bakes knowledge into the weights, and updates require re-preparing data, training, and regression, making it heavier and unauditable.
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