RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15217v1
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:23:54 GMT
- Title: RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Authors: Shahul Es, Jithin James, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert
- Abstract summary: RAGAs is a framework for evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines.
RAG systems are composed of a retrieval and an LLM based generation module.
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- Abstract: We introduce RAGAs (Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment), a framework
for reference-free evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
pipelines. RAG systems are composed of a retrieval and an LLM based generation
module, and provide LLMs with knowledge from a reference textual database,
which enables them to act as a natural language layer between a user and
textual databases, reducing the risk of hallucinations. Evaluating RAG
architectures is, however, challenging because there are several dimensions to
consider: the ability of the retrieval system to identify relevant and focused
context passages, the ability of the LLM to exploit such passages in a faithful
way, or the quality of the generation itself. With RAGAs, we put forward a
suite of metrics which can be used to evaluate these different dimensions
\textit{without having to rely on ground truth human annotations}. We posit
that such a framework can crucially contribute to faster evaluation cycles of
RAG architectures, which is especially important given the fast adoption of
LLMs.
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