RAGVUE: A Diagnostic View for Explainable and Automated Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04196v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:42:49 GMT
• Title: RAGVUE: A Diagnostic View for Explainable and Automated Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Authors: Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Martin Theobald,
• Abstract summary: RAGVUE is a framework for evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.<n>It decomposes RAG behavior into retrieval quality, answer relevance and completeness, strict claim-level faithfulness, and judge calibration.<n> RAGVUE supports both manual metric selection and fully automated agentic evaluation.
• Score: 1.564663326217051
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems remains a challenging task: existing metrics often collapse heterogeneous behaviors into single scores and provide little insight into whether errors arise from retrieval,reasoning, or grounding. In this paper, we introduce RAGVUE, a diagnostic and explainable framework for automated, reference-free evaluation of RAG pipelines. RAGVUE decomposes RAG behavior into retrieval quality, answer relevance and completeness, strict claim-level faithfulness, and judge calibration. Each metric includes a structured explanation, making the evaluation process transparent. Our framework supports both manual metric selection and fully automated agentic evaluation. It also provides a Python API, CLI, and a local Streamlit interface for interactive usage. In comparative experiments, RAGVUE surfaces fine-grained failures that existing tools such as RAGAS often overlook. We showcase the full RAGVUE workflow and illustrate how it can be integrated into research pipelines and practical RAG development. The source code and detailed instructions on usage are publicly available on GitHub

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