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---
language:
- el
- en
license: other
license_name: nvidia-open-model-license
base_model: nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: transformers
tags:
- greek
- english
- rag
- grounded-generation
- citations
- abstention
- nemotron
- long-context
model-index:
- name: Sophea-RAG-Nemo3
  results:
  - task:
      type: text-generation
      name: Grounded RAG reading (Greek long-retrieval benchmark, n=4946)
    dataset:
      type: rag
      name: Greek Wikipedia long-retrieval RAG benchmark (in-house)
    metrics:
    - type: accuracy
      name: Answer correctness (LLM-judge)
      value: 0.669
    - type: accuracy
      name: Faithfulness / groundedness
      value: 0.845
    - type: f1
      name: Citation F1
      value: 0.678
---

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style="font-size:1.24rem;font-weight:700;color:#003713;line-height:1.2">Sophea-RAG-Nemo3</div><div style="font-size:.86rem;color:#3a5a47;margin-top:2px">Greek + English grounded RAG reader — fine-tuned NVIDIA Nemotron-3 Nano 30B-A3B</div></div></div>

**Sophea-RAG-Nemo3** is a Greek + English **RAG reader**: it answers strictly from the retrieved documents you
put in its context, **cites** the documents it used as `[n]`, and **abstains** when the answer is not
there. It is the generation stage of a Greek RAG stack whose retrieval stages are
**[Sophea-Nemo-Embedding](https://huggingface.co/KIEFERSA/Sophea-Nemo-Embedding)** and
**[Sophea-Nemo-Reranker](https://huggingface.co/KIEFERSA/Sophea-Nemo-Reranker)**.

- **Creator:** Kiefer SA
- **Base model:** `nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16` (`NemotronHForCausalLM`, hybrid Mamba + attention MoE, 30B total / A3B
  active; `trust_remote_code`)
- **Languages:** Greek + English
- **Behaviour:** grounded answer → `[n]` citation → abstain when unsupported
- **Training:** LoRA (r 16, α 32) on attention + MLP + Mamba `in_proj`, 1 epoch, 8k context,
  assistant-only loss, bf16, cosine LR 1e-4, grad-clip 0.3, 4×B200 — **merged into the base weights**,
  so this is a standalone checkpoint (no adapter needed)

> **The base model is not a grounded reader.** Off the shelf it answers from parametric memory: it
> hallucinates instead of abstaining (abstains on ~1% of unanswerable questions) and its answers are
> faithful to the context only a quarter of the time. This fine-tune teaches grounding, citation and
> selective prediction.

## Why it matters — base vs fine-tuned

Measured on a **Greek Wikipedia long-retrieval RAG benchmark** (4,946 questions, up to 40 documents
/ ~24k tokens of context, 25% deliberately unanswerable, L1 factoid → L5 multi-hop synthesis).
Identical prompts and greedy decoding for both models; correctness and faithfulness are LLM-judged.

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<table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:13px;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif">
<thead><tr>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">base</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">fine-tuned</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Δ</th>
</tr></thead><tbody>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Answer correctness (LLM-judge)</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.4%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">66.9%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+37.5</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Faithfulness / groundedness</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">25.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">84.5%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+59.3</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Citation F1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">41.1%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">67.8%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+26.7</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">— citation precision</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">43.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">73.4%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+30.2</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">— citation recall</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">46.8%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">65.0%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+18.2</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Cited all gold documents</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">41.0%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">56.5%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+15.5</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Exact citation set</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">30.1%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">56.5%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+26.4</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Abstention recall (unanswerable refused)</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">1.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">30.5%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+29.3</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>

**Read.** Correctness **29.4% → 66.9%** and faithfulness **25.2% → 84.5%** — the fine-tune answers
from the documents instead of from memory. Citation F1 rises **41.1 → 67.8** and the model returns the
**exact** gold citation set on 56.5% of items (base 30.1%). Abstention recall goes from ~zero to
30.5%: the base essentially never refuses, so its "faithfulness" on unanswerable questions is
accidental.

### Robustness to retrieval noise

More retrieved documents = more distractors. Correct / faithful (%), by number of documents in context:

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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric (documents in context)</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">8</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">12</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">16</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">20</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">28</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">40</th>
</tr></thead><tbody>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">correct — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">30.8</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">32.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">26.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.8</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">correct — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">76.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">72.7</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">67.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">67.8</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">63.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">59.3</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">faithful — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">24.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">24.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.7</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">28.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">faithful — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">85.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.7</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">82.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">79.4</td></tr>
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**Read.** The fine-tune leads at every context size, from **76.5%** correct at 8 documents to
**59.3%** at 40 — it degrades gracefully as noise grows, while faithfulness stays ≥79% throughout.
The base is flat at ~29% because it is not reading the context in the first place.

### Position of the gold document ("lost in the middle")

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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric (gold position in context)</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">early</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">middle</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">late</th>
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<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">correct — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">31.9</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">29.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">26.1</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">correct — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">65.8</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">65.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">70.3</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">faithful — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">21.9</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">27.9</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">26.7</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">faithful — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">84.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">83.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.4</td></tr>
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**Read.** The base is best when the gold document is **early** (31.9%) and worst when it is **late**
(26.1%) — the classic position bias. The fine-tune is strongest on **late** gold (70.3%) and varies
by only ~5 points across positions.

### By question difficulty (L1 factoid → L5 multi-hop synthesis)

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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric (question difficulty)</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">L1</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">L2</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">L3</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">L4</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">L5</th>
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<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">correct — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">33.9</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">28.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">22.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">32.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">34.6</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">correct — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">77.7</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">73.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">60.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">54.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">57.3</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">faithful — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">30.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">25.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.1</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">20.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">24.1</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">faithful — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">91.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">90.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">85.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">68.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">70.2</td></tr>
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**Read.** The gain holds at every level — largest on the retrieval-shaped levels (L1 **+43.8**,
L2 **+45.3**) and still **+22** on the hardest multi-hop synthesis questions, where
faithfulness rises from ~20-24% to ~69-70%.

## Domain RAG evaluation

A second, independent evaluation on in-house Greek + English domain documents (800 questions across
energy, finance, legal and medical; 187 of them unanswerable):

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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">base</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">fine-tuned</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Δ</th>
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<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Answer correctness (LLM-judge)</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">31.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">61.0%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+29.8</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Faithfulness / groundedness</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.0%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">66.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+43.2</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Citation hit (cited a gold document)</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">40.0%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">60.1%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+20.1</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">Abstention on unanswerable items (n=187)</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">8.6%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">80.2%</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">+71.6</td></tr>
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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Energy</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Finance</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Legal</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">Medical</th>
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<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">correct — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">37.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">22.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">42.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">correct — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">62.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">57.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">72.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">53.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">faithful — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">25.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">21.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">23.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">faithful — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">67.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">64.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">70.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">63.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">cite-hit — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">35.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">40.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">44.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">40.0</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">cite-hit — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">60.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">57.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">71.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">52.0</td></tr>
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**Read.** The fine-tune wins on every domain and every metric, strongest on **legal**
(72.0% correct / 70.5% faithful) and weakest on **medical** (53.0% / 63.0%) — the same ordering the
retrieval stages show on these domains.

### Selective prediction

On the 187 unanswerable items the correct action is to refuse. The base answers anyway **91%** of the
time; the fine-tune abstains on **80.2%** of them — this is the mechanism behind the faithfulness gain.

### Position invariance (answerable subset, n=613)

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<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:left;">metric (gold document position)</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">1</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">2</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">3</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">4</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">5</th>
<th style="padding:10px 8px;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0a8043;color:#0a8043;font-size:14px;text-align:center;">6</th>
</tr></thead><tbody>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">correct — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">45.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">38.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">48.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">32.0</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">36.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">32.4</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">correct — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">78.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">77.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">84.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">76.7</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">84.5</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">76.5</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">faithful — base</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">33.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">30.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">34.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">20.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">25.9</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);">32.4</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:7px 8px;padding-left:20px;text-align:left;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">faithful — fine-tuned</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">84.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">85.6</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">90.3</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.4</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">86.2</td><td style="padding:7px 8px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,.15);font-weight:700;color:#0a8043;">85.3</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>

**Read.** The base decays as the gold document moves deeper into the context (45.4% at position 1 →
32.4% at position 6). The fine-tune is essentially **flat at 77-85%** across all six positions.

## Usage (transformers)

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

name = "KIEFERSA/Sophea-RAG-Nemo3"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    name, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True).eval()

SYSTEM = (
    "Είσαι βοηθός που απαντά ΑΠΟΚΛΕΙΣΤΙΚΑ με βάση τα παρεχόμενα έγγραφα. Χρησιμοποίησε μόνο τις πληροφορίες των εγγράφων, ΜΗΝ επινοείς. Ανέφερε σε αγκύλες τον αριθμό του εγγράφου/των εγγράφων που χρησιμοποίησες, π.χ. [2]. Αν η απάντηση ΔΕΝ υπάρχει στα έγγραφα, πες το καθαρά. Απάντησε στα ελληνικά, σύντομα και ουσιαστικά."
)

docs = ["Η Αθήνα είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας.", "Το Παρίσι είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Γαλλίας."]
question = "Ποια είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας;"
context = "\n".join(f"[{i}] {d}" for i, d in enumerate(docs, 1))

msgs = [{"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM},
        {"role": "user", "content": f"Έγγραφα:\n{context}\n\nΕρώτηση: {question}"}]
text = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
enc = tok(text, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=False).to(model.device)
out = model.generate(**enc, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(tok.decode(out[0][enc.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
# -> "Η Αθήνα. [1]"
```

Number the documents `[1..n]` in the user turn and keep the system message above — the model was
trained to cite those numbers and to say the answer is absent when it is. Greedy decoding
(`do_sample=False`) is what the numbers above were measured with. Needs `trust_remote_code=True`.

## Serving with vLLM

```bash
vllm serve KIEFERSA/Sophea-RAG-Nemo3 --trust-remote-code --max-model-len 40960
```

```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "KIEFERSA/Sophea-RAG-Nemo3",
  "temperature": 0,
  "messages": [
    {"role": "system", "content": "Απάντησε μόνο από τα έγγραφα και ανέφερε [n]."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Έγγραφα:\n[1] Η Αθήνα είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας.\n\nΕρώτηση: Ποια είναι η πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας;"}
  ]
}'
```

## License

Fine-tune of `nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16` — governed by the **NVIDIA Open Model License**; commercial use permitted under
those terms (note: **not** Apache-2.0). Review the base model's license before use.