Mindful-RAG: A Study of Points of Failure in Retrieval Augmented Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12216v2
• Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:15:09 GMT
• Title: Mindful-RAG: A Study of Points of Failure in Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Authors: Garima Agrawal, Tharindu Kumarage, Zeyad Alghamdi, Huan Liu,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are proficient at generating coherent and contextually relevant text. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems mitigate this by incorporating external knowledge sources, such as structured knowledge graphs (KGs) Our study investigates this dilemma by analyzing error patterns in existing KG-based RAG methods and identifying eight critical failure points.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are proficient at generating coherent and contextually relevant text but face challenges when addressing knowledge-intensive queries in domain-specific and factual question-answering tasks. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems mitigate this by incorporating external knowledge sources, such as structured knowledge graphs (KGs). However, LLMs often struggle to produce accurate answers despite access to KG-extracted information containing necessary facts. Our study investigates this dilemma by analyzing error patterns in existing KG-based RAG methods and identifying eight critical failure points. We observed that these errors predominantly occur due to insufficient focus on discerning the question's intent and adequately gathering relevant context from the knowledge graph facts. Drawing on this analysis, we propose the Mindful-RAG approach, a framework designed for intent-based and contextually aligned knowledge retrieval. This method explicitly targets the identified failures and offers improvements in the correctness and relevance of responses provided by LLMs, representing a significant step forward from existing methods.

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