Retrieving, Rethinking and Revising: The Chain-of-Verification Can Improve Retrieval Augmented Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05801v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 08:34:54 GMT
• Title: Retrieving, Rethinking and Revising: The Chain-of-Verification Can Improve Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Authors: Bolei He, Nuo Chen, Xinran He, Lingyong Yan, Zhenkai Wei, Jinchang Luo, Zhen-Hua Ling,
• Abstract summary: Recent Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) We propose the chain-of-verification (CoV-RAG) to enhance the external retrieval correctness and internal generation consistency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating extensive knowledge retrieved from external sources. However, such approach encounters some challenges: Firstly, the original queries may not be suitable for precise retrieval, resulting in erroneous contextual knowledge; Secondly, the language model can easily generate inconsistent answer with external references due to their knowledge boundary limitation. To address these issues, we propose the chain-of-verification (CoV-RAG) to enhance the external retrieval correctness and internal generation consistency. Specifically, we integrate the verification module into the RAG, engaging in scoring, judgment, and rewriting. To correct external retrieval errors, CoV-RAG retrieves new knowledge using a revised query. To correct internal generation errors, we unify QA and verification tasks with a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning during training. Our comprehensive experiments across various LLMs demonstrate the effectiveness and adaptability compared with other strong baselines. Especially, our CoV-RAG can significantly surpass the state-of-the-art baselines using different LLM backbones.

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