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Covers T5's encoder-decoder design, pre-training on the C4 dataset, fine-tuning for downstream tasks, model size variants, and evaluation benchmarks (GLUE/SuperGLUE). Also explores combining T5 with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and FAISS for real-world applications in education and healthcare, reducing hallucinations and improving factual accuracy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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