# AI Search Citation Sources for RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: 63 Public Qwen, Kimi, and Gemini Observations

This is a publication-ready, but **not yet externally deposited**, archive for the DragonAI fixed-query citation benchmark.

## Current answer at a glance (five provider batches + ten Baidu observations)

**Fixed question:** When Qwen, Kimi and Gemini answer RAG-versus-fine-tuning selection questions, which sources do they usually cite?

Across five fixed unbranded-query batches, 45 runs produced 552 concrete citation-URL occurrences across 114 distinct hostnames. Concrete-URL coverage was 15/15 runs for Gemini, 14/15 for Qwen, and 2/15 for Kimi. DragonAI target citations and brand mentions were both zero, and the target was also absent from all ten strict unbranded Baidu observations. These frozen observations do not establish answer or source quality, index coverage, long-term preference, ranking causality, or GEO success.

- **Gemini:** concrete citation URLs appeared in 15/15 completed runs.
- **Qwen:** concrete citation URLs appeared in 14/15 completed runs.
- **Kimi:** concrete citation URLs appeared in 2/15 completed runs.
- **DragonAI:** target-citation runs and brand-mention runs were both zero across the five provider batches; the target was also absent from all 30 strict-query snapshots in the ten Baidu observations.

These frozen observations are not answer- or source-quality rankings, index-coverage evidence, long-term provider preferences, ranking-causality evidence, or DragonAI GEO success.

Current ten-observation machine-readable answer: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-rag-ten-observation-answer-supplement-2026-07-31.json

Versioned base answer: https://course.dragonai.tech/research/ai-search-rag-finetuning-citations-2026-07/answer.json

## Historical formal window C detail

- **Qwen:** `zhuanlan.zhihu.com` appeared 9 times across 3/3 completed runs.
- **Kimi:** concrete citation URLs appeared in only 1/3 completed runs; `arxiv.org` appeared 7 times in that single URL-bearing run.
- **Gemini:** `medium.com` appeared 10 times and `docs.cloud.google.com` appeared 6 times, each across 3/3 completed runs.

These are point-in-time displayed-citation frequencies for the fixed question, not source-quality rankings or long-term provider preferences. The archive records zero DragonAI target-citation runs and zero brand-mention runs in window C; the result is not DragonAI GEO success.

Machine-readable answer: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-citation-benchmark-leading-hosts-2026-07-22.json

Flat 16-row query-variant answer table: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-citation-benchmark-leading-hosts-2026-07-22.csv

Portable canonical answer: `exact-query-answer.json`

Portable answer schema: `exact-query-answer-schema.json`

Auditable hostname rows: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-citation-benchmark-host-frequency-2026-07-22.csv

## Contents

- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-snapshot-2026-07-22.json`: the authoritative public snapshot, copied byte-for-byte.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-baseline-attribution-v2.json`: deterministic, zero-provider-call recomputation of the fixed prepublication B window under answer-attributable rule v2; it preserves nine answer and raw-artifact hashes, 99 corrected citation occurrences, 59 distinct URLs, 39 hostnames, zero target citations and zero brand mentions.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-snapshot-schema-v1.1.0.json`: JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 for independent structural validation of the authoritative snapshot.
- `run-level-citation-urls.csv`: one row per cited URL, plus an explicit blank-URL row for zero-citation runs.
- `formal-window-summary.csv`: one aggregate row for each formal window (B and C).
- `provider-window-summary.csv`: six compact provider-window rows with models, per-run counts, diversity, leading hosts and explicit zero-result boundaries.
- `citation-host-frequency.csv`: per-window and per-provider hostname occurrence, run coverage and distinct-URL counts; these are not source-quality rankings.
- `citation-host-overlap.csv`: pairwise hostname-set intersections, unions and Jaccard similarity within each window and across B/C for the same provider; model drift is explicit and no row is a quality ranking or GEO result.
- `citation-url-persistence.csv`: exact cited-URL run coverage in B and C, including cross-window presence and an explicit same-model comparability gate; it is not a source-quality ranking or GEO result.
- `claim-evidence-index.csv`: 56 concise Chinese result claims spanning the formal B/C windows and the separate post-formal supplement, each bound to its authoritative JSON by an exact RFC 6901 JSON Pointer and explicit evidence limitations.
- `metric-definitions.csv`: ten reviewed benchmark metrics with explicit numerators, denominators, formulas, zero-denominator handling and strict cross-window comparability rules.
- `claim-evidence-graph.json`: JSON-LD projection of the same 56 claims as `schema:Claim` and `prov:Entity` nodes, with exact `prov:wasDerivedFrom` links and non-ranking, noncausal, non-GEO-success boundaries.
- `leading-hosts-answer-evidence.json`: compact provider-leading-host answer evidence with exact CSV row selectors and zero-result boundaries.
- `leading-hosts-answer-evidence.csv`: four registered unbranded search variants mapped to the same reviewed answer and flattened into 16 portable rows with provider, model, hostname, occurrence count, run coverage, evidence selector and non-ranking boundaries.
- `exact-query-answer.json`: portable copy of the canonical v3.0 machine answer, including all four registered unbranded query bindings, twenty-five citation-ready claims with JSON evidence pointers, the current five-batch provider run-coverage, provider-host, exact-URL provider-specificity, delivery-shape, provider-concentration and cross-provider overlap facts, six-observation Baidu persistence, the cross-release adjacent-result interval, current cross-surface host and source-type summaries, eighteen evidence-use rules, the fixed reproduction protocol, answer hash, provider findings, evidence URLs and explicit non-success boundaries.
- `exact-query-answer-schema.json`: JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 for independently validating the portable fixed-query machine answer.
- `citation-ready-claims.csv`: twenty-five-row flat projection of the reviewed citation-ready claims, preserving the Chinese claim text, exact evidence fragment, exact evidence-use rule fragments, machine-answer location and three explicit non-success flags.
- `ai-search-rag-citation-retrieval-evidence-cards-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-citation-retrieval-evidence-cards-2026-07-30.md`: four Chinese unbranded-query retrieval cards with eight reviewed claims each, exact evidence pointers and explicit zero-success boundaries; these portable retrieval inputs do not establish search visibility, external publication, citation or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-current-evidence-2026-08-02-r8.zip`: offline-verifiable current evidence archive binding the five provider batches to 23 comparable Baidu observations across 12 production releases, 69 strict-query snapshots and 574 organic result positions, with its own manifest, checksums, RO-Crate, citation metadata and verifier; it is a first-party delivery asset, not independent publication, backlink, indexing, citation or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-current-evidence-linkset-2026-08-02-r8.json`: byte-identical RFC 9264 linkset from the current archive, preserving revision 7 as `predecessor-version` and exposing the revision-8 evidence relationships from the canonical research landing page.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-2026-07-28.json`: separate nine-run noncausal post-formal observation supplement; it is not a new formal B/C window.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-2026-07-28.csv`: run-level concrete citation URLs for that supplement, including target-like, legacy-grounding and target-attribution reliability flags.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-frequency-2026-07-28.csv`: 46 competitor-host rows with 112 citation occurrences, run coverage, source-type suffix projection and explicit non-quality, non-preference and non-GEO boundaries.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-source-type-summary-2026-07-28.csv`: 15 provider-by-source-type rows preserving all five categories for each provider, including Kimi's explicit zero rows, with citation occurrence share and citation-surface coverage kept separate.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-provider-host-matrix-2026-07-28.csv`: 46 hostname rows with explicit Qwen, Kimi and Gemini occurrence and run-coverage cells; this batch has zero cross-provider hostname overlap, which is not a source-quality ranking or long-term preference claim.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-run-host-incidence-2026-07-28.csv`: 414 explicit run-by-host rows (9 runs × 46 hostnames), preserving each hostname's run-level occurrence count, distinct URL count, presence flag and run totals; zero cells are retained and do not imply source quality or long-term preference.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-cocitation-edges-2026-07-28.csv`: 588 positive within-provider same-run competitor-host edges, including 179 repeated in at least two runs and a maximum 3/3 run coverage; co-occurrence does not prove page links, semantic relation, source quality, provider ranking or long-term preference.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-cocitation-node-profile-2026-07-28.csv`: 138 provider-by-host node rows with 92 explicit zero cells, unique and repeated co-cited neighbors, weighted co-citation runs and maximum pair coverage; network breadth does not prove authority, source quality, provider ranking or long-term preference.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-cocitation-graph-summary-2026-07-28.csv`: three provider-level graph rows with explicit zero denominators plus node, edge, density, component, isolate and weighted co-citation metrics; graph structure does not prove authority, source quality, provider ranking or long-term preference.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-summary-2026-07-28.svg`: deterministic SVG projection of the supplement's source mix and co-citation structure, embedding source URLs, zero target citations, zero brand mentions and the noncausal boundary; it is not a formal B/C result or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-unbranded-baseline-2026-07-29.json`: anonymous point-in-time Baidu organic baseline for three strict unbranded queries plus one separately classified site diagnostic; all four retain zero target appearances.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-unbranded-baseline-2026-07-29.csv`: 25 ranked organic-result rows plus one explicit zero-result site-diagnostic row; observed hosts are descriptive, not source-quality rankings or recommendations.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-host-query-matrix-2026-07-29.json`: deterministic 13-host by three-strict-query incidence matrix derived from the Baidu baseline; the site diagnostic is excluded.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-host-query-matrix-2026-07-29.csv`: flat host-level projection with explicit query presence/absence, occurrences and observed positions; ordering is not a quality, authority or recommendation score.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-source-surface-matrix-2026-07-29.json`: deterministic query and aggregate projection of the same 25 strict results into five conservative hostname-suffix source-surface types.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-source-surface-matrix-2026-07-29.csv`: 20 flat query/aggregate rows retaining zero categories and zero target observations; surface counts are not publisher identity, authority, recommendation or causal-ranking evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-title-term-matrix-2026-07-29.json`: deterministic 25-result-title by seven registered fixed-query-concept matrix derived from the same frozen Baidu baseline.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-title-term-matrix-2026-07-29.csv`: 25 flat result-title rows retaining every literal-match zero cell; title coverage is not ranking-factor, quality, indexing, visibility or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-evidence-join-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-evidence-join-2026-07-29.csv`: self-contained query-level join of the strict Baidu SERP observations, AI-citation evidence and target-observation boundaries.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-competitive-result-evidence-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-competitive-result-evidence-2026-07-29.csv`: 25 current strict-result rows joining churn, source surface, title concepts, hostname citation overlap and exact-URL citation overlap while preserving target absence and non-success boundaries.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-ai-citation-host-overlap-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-ai-citation-host-overlap-2026-07-29.csv`: hostname overlap between the frozen Baidu strict SERP and AI-citation surfaces; overlap is descriptive and not authority or quality evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-ai-citation-url-overlap-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-ai-citation-url-overlap-2026-07-29.csv`: exact-URL overlap between the same evidence surfaces; overlap or non-overlap is not GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-churn-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-churn-2026-07-29.csv`: two-observation strict SERP retention, additions, removals and position movement with the target absent in both observations.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-adjacent-churn-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-adjacent-churn-2026-07-30.csv`: third-to-fourth strict SERP adjacent-interval evidence with all 25 URLs retained, no additions or removals, exactly two competitor position changes and the target absent in both observations; it does not rewrite the frozen three-observation panel.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-fourth-to-fifth-churn-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-fourth-to-fifth-churn-2026-07-30.csv`: fourth-to-fifth strict SERP adjacent-interval evidence preserving observed competitor retention, entry, exit and movement while the target remains absent in both observations.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-fifth-to-sixth-churn-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-fifth-to-sixth-churn-2026-07-30.csv`: fifth-to-sixth strict SERP adjacent-interval evidence with 23 retained URLs, two additions, two removals, one retained position change and the target absent in both observations.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-cross-release-churn-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-cross-release-churn-2026-07-30.csv`: adjacent strict SERP observations spanning production releases `20260729T022923Z-e69a48add49f` and `20260730T051300Z-e2b7350f9d7d`, with 19 retained URLs, six additions, six removals, seven retained position changes and the target absent in both. The release boundary is descriptive and does not establish a release effect, ranking cause, positive visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-four-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-four-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.csv`: four-observation exact-URL persistence for 29 query-URL rows; 22 occur in all four snapshots and 20 of those keep an identical position. Position sequences, population standard deviation and latest-consecutive counts are descriptive point-time evidence, not long-term stability, ranking causality, positive target visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-five-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-five-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.csv`: five-observation exact-URL persistence for 31 query-URL rows; 20 occur in all five snapshots and 15 of those keep an identical position. The contraction from the frozen four-observation panel records fifth-observation competitor churn only; it is not long-term stability, ranking causality, positive target visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-six-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-six-observation-persistence-2026-07-30.csv`: six-observation exact-URL persistence for 33 query-URL rows; 18 occur in all six snapshots and 12 of those keep an identical position. The fifth-to-sixth interval records competitor churn only; it is not long-term stability, ranking causality, positive target visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-five-batch-run-level-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-citation-benchmark-five-batch-run-level-2026-07-30.csv`: five fixed-query benchmark batches unified into 45 completed provider-run records and 566 CSV rows. The CSV preserves 552 concrete citation-URL occurrences plus 14 explicit zero-citation rows and repeats each provider's completed-run, citation-bearing-run, zero-run, run-rate, URL-occurrence, distinct-URL and distinct-hostname aggregates on every row, so flat-table consumers can audit the provider denominator without joining the JSON summary. Gemini, Qwen and Kimi displayed at least one concrete URL in 15/15, 14/15 and 2/15 runs respectively, with 0, 1 and 13 zero-citation runs. Across all providers, 194 distinct URLs and 114 hostnames were observed, while target citation and brand mention runs remain zero. Concrete-URL run coverage is a provider display-surface observation, not answer quality, source quality, index coverage, authority or GEO success.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-five-batch-url-profile-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-citation-benchmark-five-batch-url-profile-2026-07-30.csv`: 194 exact citation URLs from the same five batches compressed to one row per URL with provider, batch, run and occurrence coverage. One hundred ninety-three URLs are provider-exclusive; only `https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997` spans Kimi and Gemini, while eleven URLs cover all five batches and all eleven are Gemini observations. Exact-string overlap does not establish redirect equivalence, a shared index, source quality, authority, recommendation or GEO success.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-url-delivery-shape-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-citation-benchmark-url-delivery-shape-2026-07-30.csv`: 194 exact citation URLs classified deterministically by path depth, reviewed file suffix, query, fragment and HTTPS fields. The dominant deep-page shape contains 182 URLs and 156 URLs have at least two path segments; the target shares the dominant shape but remains uncited. URL-shape matching is not discovery, indexing, retrieval preference, citation eligibility, a ranking factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-provider-overlap-matrix-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-citation-benchmark-provider-overlap-matrix-2026-07-30.csv`: three provider-pair rows comparing exact-URL and hostname sets. Qwen/Kimi share zero of 43 exact URLs but two of 22 hostnames; Qwen/Gemini share neither exact URLs nor hostnames; Kimi/Gemini share one of 176 exact URLs and one of 107 hostnames. Jaccard and overlap coefficients are descriptive point-in-time set measures, not evidence of a shared index, same-document retrieval, source quality, authority, recommendation or GEO success.
- `ai-search-citation-benchmark-provider-host-persistence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-citation-benchmark-provider-host-persistence-2026-07-30.csv`: five fixed-query benchmark batches and 45 completed provider runs expanded to a complete 3-provider by 114-host matrix. The 342 rows retain 117 positive cells, 225 explicit zeros, 552 concrete citation-URL occurrences and zero target-citation or brand-mention runs; repeated host presence is descriptive observation, not source quality, long-term provider preference, authority or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-cross-surface-host-persistence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-cross-surface-host-persistence-2026-07-30.csv`: five-batch AI citation hosts and six-observation Baidu strict-query hosts full-outer-joined into 123 normalized-host rows. Six hosts overlap; three cover all five AI batches for at least one provider, four have a Baidu URL present in all six observations, only `cloud.tencent.com` meets both criteria, and the target is absent on both surfaces. Overlap and repetition do not prove a shared index, source quality, long-term provider preference, ranking causality, authority or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-cross-surface-source-type-summary-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-cross-surface-source-type-summary-2026-07-30.csv`: the 123-host cross-surface panel compressed into six mutually exclusive source-type rows. Vendor documentation accounts for three of six overlap hosts, expert communities for two and other practitioners or publishers for one; the only double-persistence host is vendor documentation, while nine Baidu-only hosts remain explicitly unclassified. Type counts do not prove publisher identity, source quality, channel fit, ranking causality, target visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-top3-four-observation-evidence-2026-07-30.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-top3-four-observation-evidence-2026-07-30.csv`: nine query-URL rows that hold the same top-three position across all four strict Baidu observations, joined to title terms, source surface, current competitive evidence, formal-window-C AI citation overlap and the frozen read-only document-capture outcome. One row has exact-URL overlap, five have hostname overlap, three captures succeeded and six failed or returned HTML shells; failed captures are not imputed, and persistence, overlap or delivery features are not ranking causality, source quality, target visibility or GEO success.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-observation-panel-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-observation-panel-2026-07-29.csv`: three observations, nine strict-query snapshots and two adjacent interval comparisons with the target absent throughout; included so the historical three-observation machine-answer claim can be verified offline.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-url-persistence-2026-07-29.csv`: 29 strict-query URL rows aggregated from the same panel; 22 appear in all three observations, 20 of those hold the same position, two appear twice and five appear once. Point-in-time repetition is not long-term stability, source quality, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-host-persistence-2026-07-29.csv`: 15 observed-host rows aggregated from the same panel; 12 appear in all three observations, eight appear in at least one top-three result and only `blog.csdn.net` covers all three strict queries. Host persistence is not source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-host-matrix-2026-07-29.csv`: complete 45-row Cartesian denominator for three strict queries by all 15 hosts observed anywhere in the panel; 22 pairs appear at least once, 18 appear in all three observations and nine enter the top three. Every row keeps three position slots and explicit zero cells; incidence is not source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-host-transitions-2026-07-29.csv`: complete 90-row denominator for all 45 strict-query/host pairs across both adjacent observation intervals; 37 rows are retained, three entered, three exited and 47 absent in both endpoints. Retained pairs have zero best-position change; transition incidence is not source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-url-transitions-2026-07-29.csv`: complete 174-row denominator for all 87 strict-query/exact-URL pairs across both adjacent observation intervals; 22 rows are retained, 28 entered, three exited and 121 absent in both endpoints. Two retained rows change position, nine enter the top three and none exit the top three; transition incidence is not new-index, click probability, traffic, target visibility, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-host-transition-summary-2026-07-29.csv`: 15 host-level rows aggregating the adjacent-interval query-host transitions; one host is a net entrant, one a net exit and two have offsetting entry/exit churn. Aggregate movement is not long-term momentum, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-host-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 15 host-level rows summing `1 / organic position` across the 75 observed result positions; `cloud.tencent.com` has 4.5 of the 24.719048 panel exposure total (0.182046 share), while first-to-latest direction counts are one increased, two decreased and twelve unchanged. This arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-url-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 29 URL-level rows summing `1 / organic position` across the same panel. The Tencent Cloud article, CSDN column article and IBM explainer at organic position one tie at 3.0 exposure each (0.121364 share; 0.364092 jointly); nine URLs appear in a top-three result, while first-to-latest direction counts are three increased, three decreased and twenty-three unchanged. This arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-surface-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 5 preregistered hostname-suffix source-surface rows summing the same 24.719048 reciprocal-rank exposure total. Vendor-or-cloud technical sites lead at 10.053571 exposure (0.406714 share); four surfaces appear in a top-three result, while first-to-latest direction counts are one increased, two decreased and two unchanged. This classification-based arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, target visibility, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-surface-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 15 strict-query by preregistered source-surface rows retain the complete Cartesian denominator, including four explicit zeros. Eleven rows have nonzero exposure and five appear in a top-three result; the per-query leaders are community/column platforms at 0.668609 share for provider sources, and vendor/cloud technical sites at 0.44459 and 0.826446 for selection sources and source comparison. Direction counts are one increased, two decreased and twelve unchanged. This classification-based arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, target visibility, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-host-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 45 strict-query by observed-host rows retain the complete Cartesian denominator, including twenty-three explicit zeros. Twenty-two rows have nonzero exposure and nine appear in a top-three result; the per-query leading hosts are `cloudmist-j-vision.blog.csdn.net`, `cloud.tencent.com` and `www.ibm.com` at 0.341417, 0.367937 and 0.385675 shares. Direction counts are one increased, two decreased and forty-two unchanged. This arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, target visibility, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-url-rank-exposure-2026-07-29.csv`: 87 strict-query by observed exact-URL rows retain the complete Cartesian denominator, including fifty-eight explicit zeros. Twenty-nine rows have nonzero exposure and nine appear in a top-three result; the per-query leading URLs are the Cloudmist CSDN article, Tencent Cloud article and IBM RAG explainer at 0.341417, 0.367937 and 0.385675 shares. Direction counts are three increased, three decreased and eighty-one unchanged. This arithmetic index is not click probability, traffic, target visibility, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-serp-query-snapshot-host-concentration-2026-07-29.csv`: 9 observation-by-query rows computing host-result-share HHI, the reciprocal-rank leading host and top-three host diversity. HHI spans 0.15625 to 0.22 with a 0.186641 mean; all nine snapshots have three distinct top-three hosts, and the three queries show no first-to-latest concentration-structure change. Concentration is not click probability, traffic, source quality, channel recommendation, ranking-factor or GEO-success evidence.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-top3-document-features-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-top3-document-features-2026-07-29.csv`: one read-only delivery-feature capture for the nine frozen top-three documents across the three strict Baidu queries. The complete denominator retains three usable page-feature responses and six failures or HTML shells, zero target documents and explicit noncausal boundaries; third-party response bodies are not retained.
- `ai-search-rag-baidu-target-delivery-comparison-2026-07-29.json` and `ai-search-rag-baidu-target-delivery-comparison-2026-07-29.csv`: 16 same-field delivery metrics comparing the current target with the three successful competitor captures from the nine-document source denominator. The target exceeds all three on eight metrics, but every ranking-cause, source-quality, target-search-visibility and GEO-success flag remains false.
- `zenodo-metadata.json`: metadata ready for human review and entry into a research-data repository.
- `datacite-metadata.json`: DataCite Metadata Schema 4.7 JSON API attributes ready for repository review; it intentionally omits DOI, prefix and publish event fields.
- `linkset.json`: self-contained RFC 9264 `application/linkset+json` discovery relations for the landing page, content resources and metadata resources.
- `croissant-metadata.json`: MLCommons Croissant 1.0 JSON-LD describing public files, CSV record sets, fields, types and extraction columns.
- `datapackage.json`: Frictionless Tabular Data Package descriptor for all sixty CSV projections, including the text-free Baidu generated-answer module evidence, five-batch run-level citation projection, exact-URL cross-provider profile, exact-URL delivery-shape profile, provider-pair URL/hostname overlap and provider-host persistence matrix, its six-observation Baidu cross-surface host-persistence join and source-type summary, the Baidu strict-unbranded baseline, its strict-query-by-host incidence matrix, query-by-source-surface matrix, result-title-by-query-term matrix, cross-surface evidence join, current result-level competitive evidence join, the frozen top-three document delivery-feature capture, the current target-versus-competitor delivery comparison, hostname and exact-URL overlap, two-observation SERP churn, the third-to-fourth, fourth-to-fifth, fifth-to-sixth and cross-release adjacent observation intervals, four-, five- and six-observation exact-URL persistence, the stable-top-three cross-surface evidence join, the three-observation SERP panel plus URL- and host-persistence, temporal query-host and query-exact-URL adjacent-interval transitions, host-transition-summary, host-, URL-, source-surface-, query-by-source-surface-, query-by-host- and query-by-exact-URL-level reciprocal-rank-exposure and query-snapshot host-concentration projections, twenty-five-row citation-ready claim projection, attribution-lineage projection and eight separate observation-supplement projections, field types, public paths, byte sizes and SHA-256 hashes.
- `dcat-metadata.json`: W3C DCAT 3 JSON-LD catalog record with downloadable distributions, media types, byte sizes and SHA-256 checksums.
- `REPORT.jats.xml`: JATS 1.3 machine-readable research article with methods, provider-level results, limitations, data-availability links, 19 structured internal authority references and three reviewed arXiv references.
- `oai-dublin-core.xml`: OAI Dublin Core XML for repository or library-metadata ingestion, with the canonical research page, source hash, JATS/PDF/archive relations and explicit zero-result boundary.
- `reproduce-summary.py`: zero-dependency Python script that recomputes formal window and provider summaries; validates all 92 host-frequency, 9 host-overlap and 98 URL-persistence rows; independently reconstructs 45 runs, 552 concrete URL occurrences and 114 observed hosts from the current 566-row run-level CSV; and validates provider coverage, 18 Baidu strict-query snapshots and 123 cross-surface hosts while preserving every zero-target and non-success boundary.
- `CITATION.cff`: citation metadata without a fabricated DOI.
- `CITATION.csl.json`: UTF-8 CSL-JSON citation metadata without a fabricated DOI.
- `CITATION.bib`: UTF-8 BibTeX citation metadata without a fabricated DOI.
- `CITATION.ris`: UTF-8 RIS citation metadata without a fabricated DOI.
- `CODEBOOK.md`: generated human-readable field types, row units, missing-value rules and interpretation boundaries for all sixty CSV projections.
- `METHODS.md`: generated methods record covering the fixed questions, execution design, URL rules, missingness, model drift, trigger and causal boundaries.
- `README.zh-CN.md`: concise Chinese fixed-query answer, evidence map, reuse boundary and human publication checklist for Chinese AI-search retrieval.
- `LICENSE.txt`: standalone CC BY 4.0 attribution instructions and explicit third-party rights exclusions.
- `ro-crate-metadata.json`: RO-Crate 1.3 JSON-LD linking the attached research files and their context.
- `MANIFEST.json` and `SHA256SUMS`: deterministic file inventory and integrity evidence.

Companion preservation package: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-citation-benchmark-bagit-2026-07-22.zip. It is a deterministic
BagIt 1.0 ZIP containing the same payload files under `data/`, a
`Payload-Oxum`, and SHA-256 payload and tag manifests. Availability or reuse
of that package is not external publication, indexing, AI citation, or GEO
success.

Source dataset: https://course.dragonai.tech/datasets/ai-search-citation-benchmark-snapshot-2026-07-22.json

Research page: https://course.dragonai.tech/research/ai-search-rag-finetuning-citations-2026-07

Source snapshot SHA-256: `3dedb418d0eecebd440d046d886ad6237d7d513ec8fabfecb981b2ec0bba9a83`

## Evidence boundary

Windows B and C each contain nine completed runs. The archive preserves zero DragonAI target-citation runs and zero brand-mention runs in both windows. Window C was triggered by a 24-hour timebox without verified target-page crawl, so it is not causal evidence. Kimi changed models between windows and is excluded from the strict same-model trend.

The archive excludes complete model answers, provider API payloads and third-party page content. Provider names and trademarks are not licensed. Recorded URLs do not grant rights in linked pages and do not imply endorsement, correctness, indexing, ranking or GEO success.

The archive also includes `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-2026-07-28.json`, its run-level
CSV projection, `ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-frequency-2026-07-28.csv`,
`ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-source-type-summary-2026-07-28.csv` and
`ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-provider-host-matrix-2026-07-28.csv` and
`ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-run-host-incidence-2026-07-28.csv`,
`ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-cocitation-edges-2026-07-28.csv` and
`ai-search-citation-benchmark-observation-host-cocitation-node-profile-2026-07-28.csv`. These projections
preserve a separate nine-run, noncausal post-formal observation with explicit
zero target citations and zero brand mentions. The host audit is a deterministic
hostname-suffix projection, not publisher identity confirmation, source-quality
ranking or long-term provider preference. These files are not a new formal B/C
window and must not be merged into the formal trend.

The archive additionally preserves `ai-search-citation-benchmark-baseline-attribution-v2.json`. It is an
offline deterministic correction of the fixed B window, not a new provider run or
new observation window. It records zero provider calls, binds all nine source
answers and raw artifacts by SHA-256, and corrects the B aggregate from 106 to 99
citation occurrences and from 60 to 59 distinct URLs while retaining 39 hostnames,
zero target citations and zero brand mentions. Historical C values remain under
the earlier unversioned rule and must not be presented as a strict B/C attribution
trend.

The archive also includes `ai-search-rag-baidu-unbranded-baseline-2026-07-29.json` and
`ai-search-rag-baidu-unbranded-baseline-2026-07-29.csv`. They preserve an anonymous,
point-in-time Baidu observation for three strict unbranded queries and one
separately classified `site:` diagnostic. The strict denominator excludes the
diagnostic, all target appearances remain zero, and the observed competitor
hosts are descriptive only. These files do not prove indexing, candidate
inclusion, ranking improvement, citation, recommendation or GEO success.

`ai-search-rag-baidu-host-query-matrix-2026-07-29.json` and
`ai-search-rag-baidu-host-query-matrix-2026-07-29.csv` deterministically project the same
strict-query results into a 13-host incidence matrix. The site diagnostic is
excluded from every denominator. Coverage, occurrences and positions are
descriptive only and do not rank source quality, establish authority, recommend
publishers, prove long-term preference or count as GEO success.

`ai-search-rag-baidu-source-surface-matrix-2026-07-29.json` and
`ai-search-rag-baidu-source-surface-matrix-2026-07-29.csv` project those same 25 strict
results into five conservative hostname-suffix surface types and retain all
zero categories. The labels do not confirm publisher identity, editorial
control, quality, authority, recommendation, causal ranking factors or GEO success.

`ai-search-rag-baidu-title-term-matrix-2026-07-29.json` and
`ai-search-rag-baidu-title-term-matrix-2026-07-29.csv` project the same frozen titles across
seven registered fixed-query concepts. Literal title matches do not explain
ranking, validate source quality, prove target indexing or visibility, or count
as GEO success.

## Human publication procedure

1. A named human reviewer verifies the exact archive hash, rights boundary and repository policy.
2. An authorized account owner uploads the archive and metadata manually.
3. The operator records the repository URL, version, DOI (only if actually issued), timestamp and rendered proof.
4. An independent check verifies the public record and its canonical backlink.
5. Only the verified external record may count as third-party publication evidence; a draft, upload attempt or reserved DOI does not.
