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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
May. 02, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yosi Mass, Ramat Gan, IL;
Assaf Toledo, Ramat Gan, IL;
Asaf Yehudai, Jerusalem, IL;
Boaz Carmeli, Koranit, IL;
Danish Contractor, Somerset, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, as input, a query and a source document intended for a content-grounded question-answering or multi-turn conversation task by a specified large language model (LLM) which has a context window size limit, wherein the source document has a size which exceeds the context window size limit; dividing the source document into a plurality of segments; applying a language model to each of the segments, to assign to each of the segments a relevance score; selecting the k-top segments having the highest the relevance scores; combining the selected k-top segments into a virtual document having a size which complies with the context window size limit; and feeding the virtual document as input to the specified LLM, to generate a response that is grounded in the content of the virtual document.