Alliance Bioversity and CIAT, CGIAR, A4IP Accelerate for Impact Platform Ask the assistant
A4IP AI Discovery System

Where the answers come from,
and how they are built

The system retrieves from a large body of CGIAR and partner research, together with the innovations supported by the Accelerate for Impact Platform, and builds each answer from what it finds.

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The collections

The repositories and portfolios the system draws on.

How it works

The system is a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system. It finds the most relevant passages in an indexed knowledge base, then composes its answer from them and points back to the source.

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Ingest and chunk

Documents are parsed with standardized metadata and split into passages, so answers can point to the exact section.

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Embed and index

Passages become vector embeddings stored in a semantic index, so search works by meaning rather than exact wording.

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Retrieve (semantic search)

Your question is embedded the same way and matched to the most relevant passages and their metadata.

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Generate with grounding

A frontier large language model writes the answer from the retrieved passages and aims to cite where each result comes from.

Good to know. Documents remain the property of their original publishers and are subject to their own licences. The assistant summarizes and links to them, and it can make mistakes, so please check important details in the original source.