Why use Markdown for LLMs
- Markdown's simplicity and readability make it a good choice for LLMs as it provides a clear and structured format for text. This leads to improved LLM understanding and output quality, which is very useful when dealing with structured data like tables.
- It uses plain text formatting which is easy for both humans and LLMs to read and understand. This helps to improve the quality of LLM responses.
- Markdown can preserve formatting elements like headings, lists, and tables in a document. Which can help LLMs understand the context and structure of the information better.
- By providing better context and structure to the LLM, markdown-formatted text in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines can improve the accuracy of LLM responses.
- Markdown is easy to learn and use. And it can be converted to other formats like HTML, making it a versatile tool for various applications.
- Markdown is particularly useful for handling structured data like tables, where the relationships between headers and cells are preserved and this can reduce the amount of hallucinations drastically.
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