| How to evaluate a RAG system |
This guide will teach you how to evaluate a RAG system for both accuracy and quality. |
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You will learn to maintain RAG performance by testing for: |
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Response accuracy. |
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This stage involves searching and fetching relevant information from a knowledge base or external sources. |
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In this stage, the retrieved information is processed and combined with the original query |
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Using the augmented information, the language model generates a response to the original query. |
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