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Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Question Answering on a Heart Failure Dataset: Performance Analysis

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Question Answering on a Heart Failure Dataset: Performance Analysis

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  1. Lorensia A, Vincent D, Febrianto D, Amirul Jabar B, Halim R. 2026 13th International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS). Evaluating the Efficacy of RAG-Enhanced Local LLMs in Cross-lingual Medical Information Retrieval: A Case Study on Indonesian to English Retrieval View