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title: How to evaluate a RAG system
text: This guide will teach you how to evaluate a RAG system for both accuracy and quality.
subtitle: Stages prone to errors
listTitle: "You will learn to maintain RAG performance by testing for:"
list:
- id: 0
  text: Search precision
- id: 1
  text: Recall
- id: 2
  text: Contextual relevance
- id: 3
  text: Response accuracy.
image:
  src: /img/rag-evaluation-guide/stages.svg
  alt: Stages
features:
- id: 0
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/search-text-blue.svg
    alt: Search text
  title: Information retrieval
  description: This stage involves searching and fetching relevant information from a knowledge base or external sources.
- id: 1
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/integration-blue.svg
    alt: Integration
  title: Information augmentation
  description: In this stage, the retrieved information is processed and combined with the original query
- id: 2
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/vectors-blue.svg
    alt: Vectors
  title: Generating responses
  description: Using the augmented information, the language model generates a response to the original query.
downloadGuide:
  text: Download the Guide
  url: "#form"
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