citation recall
A metric that answers the following question: What percentage of the source documents the LLM used to compose its response are actually cited in the response?
Plain English Explanation
A metric that answers the following question: What percentage of the source documents the LLM used to compose its response are actually cited in the response? For example, if an LLM relied on 20 documents to compose its response but the response only cited 11 of them, then the citation recall would be 0.55.
How is it used?
Practitioners refer to citation recall when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.