Summary of Xrag: Examining the Core — Benchmarking Foundational Components in Advanced Retrieval-augmented Generation, by Qianren Mao et al.
XRAG: eXamining the Core – Benchmarking Foundational Components in Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation
by Qianren Mao, Yangyifei Luo, Jinlong Zhang, Hanwen Hao, Zhilong Cao, Xiaolong Wang, Xiao Guan, Zhenting Huang, Weifeng Jiang, Shuyu Guo, Zhentao Han, Qili Zhang, Siyuan Tao, Yujie Liu, Junnan Liu, Zhixing Tan, Jie Sun, Bo Li, Xudong Liu, Richong Zhang, Jianxin Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to Large Language Models (LLMs) combines data retrieval and generative capabilities, ensuring accurate and current output. The XRAG codebase facilitates comprehensive evaluation of foundational RAG modules, categorized into four phases: pre-retrieval, retrieval, post-retrieval, and generation. We analyze these components across reconfigured datasets, providing a benchmark for effectiveness. As complexity escalates, we identify potential failure points and formulate diagnostic testing protocols to dissect them. Bespoke solutions optimize performance by addressing prevalent failure points. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper combines data retrieval and Large Language Models (LLMs) to create accurate and current output. It’s like a super-smart AI assistant that gets better over time! The authors created a special codebase called XRAG that helps us understand how well these AI systems work. They broke it down into four steps: getting the right information, searching for it, using what they found, and creating new text. By testing this on different data sets, we can see which parts of the system are working best. The authors also identified some problems with these systems and came up with ways to fix them. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Rag
