# A Small Model Asks Better: Fine-Tuning Query Clarification for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

**Published:** October 22, 2026
**Author:** Lihong He, Lucian Popa, Marina Danilevsky
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.28686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query clarification is essential for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that face ambiguous user queries. We consider multi-turn grounded conversational scenarios where a user query is either ill-formed or ambiguous in…

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