What the Data for This Category Looks Like
Cosmetics investment research data primarily comes from official brand filing public documents, third-party compliance test reports, publicly available industry research literature, public product detail pages on e-commerce channels, and public entries from ingredient compliance databases. Filing documents update alongside new product launches. Test reports update per compliance inspection cycles. Industry literature releases monthly or quarterly. Product detail pages adjust for promotions or product revisions. Data includes long-form content such as usage instructions and ingredient analyses, structured tables including ingredient lists and specification parameters, and single-parameter entries like filing numbers, production batch numbers, and net content labels. Most fields tie to specific units of measurement, with no unified fixed format.
What Constraints These Characteristics Impose on Citation Source and Traceability
The multi-format nature of cosmetics data requires traceability systems to differentiate association rules between long-text paragraphs and structured tables. This prevents incorrect linking of single entries from ingredient tables to unrelated usage instruction documents. The high update frequency of filing and product data requires traceability systems to bind data update timestamps and batch information. This stops expired product information from being used in citations. The multi-field, multi-unit structure requires traceability to match specific fields precisely, rather than entire text passages. This ensures investment research citations for ingredient content, compliance parameters, and other details align exactly with their original sources. Investment research scenarios have strict data compliance requirements. Traceability must retain verifiable access points to original sources, to allow validation of data validity and timeliness.
How to Set the Configurations
| Configuration Item | Recommended Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
maxContext | 8000–12000 characters | Covers the context requirements of multi-turn questions in cosmetics investment research, ensuring continuous queries such as ingredient comparisons and competitor analysis can associate historical information |
recall_top_k | Top 6–8 entries | Balances recall accuracy and content redundancy, ensuring enough relevant data entries are returned for traceability while avoiding excessive irrelevant content that causes interference |
enable_source_display | Enabled | Ensures citation sources are displayed at the end of response paragraphs, meeting traceability verification needs in investment research scenarios |
parse_chunk_size | 800–1000 characters | Adapts to the average length of cosmetics documents, avoiding incorrect traceability associations caused by overly fragmented segments, or incomplete context coverage caused by overly long segments |
enable_share_source | Enabled | Fixes the issue of invalid traceability functionality for login-free share links in versions 4.9.6 and above, ensuring users can view original sources in share scenarios |
update_interval | Every 7 days | Matches the update cycle of cosmetics filing and product information, ensuring cited data in the knowledge base remains timely |
The parameter values provided on this page are common starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require case-by-case analysis. It is recommended to test against applicable samples before finalizing settings.
Three Common Misconfigurations
- Symptom: When accessing the application via a login-free share link, clicking citation sources has no response, or there is no original document access entry in the interface. Cause: The
enable_share_sourceparameter was not correctly set to enabled, or the application was not restarted after configuration to apply changes. This issue is common in versions 4.9.6 and above. - Symptom: No citation source labels and source lists are attached at the end of response paragraphs generated by the knowledge base. Cause: The
enable_source_displayparameter was not enabled, orrecall_top_kwas set to 0, resulting in no associated documents being recalled. The paragraph-end citation functionality added in version 4.9.7 requires this configuration to take effect. - Symptom: During consecutive follow-up questions, subsequent questions cannot associate previous conversation context, and response content is unrelated to historical queries. Cause: The
maxContextparameter value is too small, failing to cover the context content of multi-turn conversations, resulting in loss of historical information and inability to implement associated queries.
How to Confirm the Configuration Is Correct
- Enter the application's knowledge base management interface, check the configuration values of core parameters such as
maxContextandrecall_top_k, and confirm they match the preset recommended values. - Upload a cosmetics filing document, initiate a query including ingredient search, wait for the response to generate, and check if citation source entries and source links are displayed at the end of the response paragraph.
- Generate a login-free share link, access the application using this link, and click the citation source in the response to confirm it jumps to the original document page.
- Initiate two consecutive queries, for example, first query the ingredients of a product, then follow up with a query about the compliance of that ingredient, check if the second response associates the product information from the first query, and confirm that context association is working.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.