Why use Markdown for LLMs

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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Why Markdown is better for LLMs