RAG Playground: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Retrieval Strategies and Prompt Engineering in RAG Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12322v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:40:26 GMT
• Title: RAG Playground: A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Retrieval Strategies and Prompt Engineering in RAG Systems
• Authors: Ioannis Papadimitriou, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis, Kompatsiaris,
• Abstract summary: RAG Playground is an open-source framework for systematic evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. We introduce a comprehensive evaluation framework with novel metrics and provide empirical results comparing different language models.
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• Abstract: We present RAG Playground, an open-source framework for systematic evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The framework implements and compares three retrieval approaches: naive vector search, reranking, and hybrid vector-keyword search, combined with ReAct agents using different prompting strategies. We introduce a comprehensive evaluation framework with novel metrics and provide empirical results comparing different language models (Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5) across various retrieval configurations. Our experiments demonstrate significant performance improvements through hybrid search methods and structured self-evaluation prompting, achieving up to 72.7% pass rate on our multi-metric evaluation framework. The results also highlight the importance of prompt engineering in RAG systems, with our custom-prompted agents showing consistent improvements in retrieval accuracy and response quality.

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