Semantic Certainty Assessment in Vector Retrieval Systems: A Novel Framework for Embedding Quality Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05933v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:33:11 GMT
• Title: Semantic Certainty Assessment in Vector Retrieval Systems: A Novel Framework for Embedding Quality Evaluation
• Abstract summary: Vector retrieval systems exhibit significant performance variance across queries due to heterogeneous embedding quality.<n>We propose a framework for predicting retrieval performance at the query level by combining quantization robustness and neighborhood density metrics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vector retrieval systems exhibit significant performance variance across queries due to heterogeneous embedding quality. We propose a lightweight framework for predicting retrieval performance at the query level by combining quantization robustness and neighborhood density metrics. Our approach is motivated by the observation that high-quality embeddings occupy geometrically stable regions in the embedding space and exhibit consistent neighborhood structures. We evaluate our method on 4 standard retrieval datasets, showing consistent improvements of 9.4$\pm$1.2\% in Recall@10 over competitive baselines. The framework requires minimal computational overhead (less than 5\% of retrieval time) and enables adaptive retrieval strategies. Our analysis reveals systematic patterns in embedding quality across different query types, providing insights for targeted training data augmentation.

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