Long Context RAG Performance of Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03538v1
• Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:37:43 GMT
• Title: Long Context RAG Performance of Large Language Models
• Authors: Quinn Leng, Jacob Portes, Sam Havens, Matei Zaharia, Michael Carbin,
• Abstract summary: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial technique for enhancing the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) This paper presents a study of the impact of increased context length on RAG performance across 20 popular open source and commercial LLMs.
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• Abstract: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial technique for enhancing the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external information. With the advent of LLMs that support increasingly longer context lengths, there is a growing interest in understanding how these models perform in RAG scenarios. Can these new long context models improve RAG performance? This paper presents a comprehensive study of the impact of increased context length on RAG performance across 20 popular open source and commercial LLMs. We ran RAG workflows while varying the total context length from 2,000 to 128,000 tokens (and 2 million tokens when possible) on three domain-specific datasets, and report key insights on the benefits and limitations of long context in RAG applications. Our findings reveal that while retrieving more documents can improve performance, only a handful of the most recent state of the art LLMs can maintain consistent accuracy at long context above 64k tokens. We also identify distinct failure modes in long context scenarios, suggesting areas for future research.

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