RAG, Fine-Tuning, Distillation, and RLVR: An Enterprise Decision Framework

The modern enterprise AI toolkit extends far beyond basic RAG vs Fine-Tuning. Today leaders choose between RAG, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Knowledge Distillation, and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR).

The 4-Way Decision Matrix

When to retrieve knowledge, when to adapt style, when to compress intelligence into small models, and when to reinforce rule-bound verification.