RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation
https://papers.cool/arxiv/2309.15217
Authors: Shahul Es ; Jithin James ; Luis Espinosa-Anke ; Steven Schockaert
Summary: We introduce RAGAs (Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment), a framework for reference-free evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. RAG systems are composed of a retrieval and an LLM based generation module, and provide LLMs with knowledge from a reference textual database, which enables them to act as a natural language layer between a user and textual databases, reducing the risk of hallucinations. Evaluating RAG architectures is, however, challenging because there are several dimensions to consider: the ability of the retrieval system to identify relevant and focused context passages, the ability of the LLM to exploit such passages in a faithful way, or the quality of the generation itself. With RAGAs, we put forward a suite of metrics which can be used to evaluate these different dimensions \textit{without having to rely on ground truth human annotations}. We posit that such a framework can crucially contribute to faster evaluation cycles of RAG architectures, which is especially important given the fast adoption of LLMs.
A: 这篇论文介绍了RAGAS(Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment),一个用于无需参考标准即可评估检索增强生成(Retrieval Augmented Generation, RAG)系统框架的问题。RAG系统由检索模块和基于大型语言模型(LLM)的生成模块组成,它们能够从参考文本数据库中为LLM提供知识,使其能够在用户和文本数据库之间充当自然语言层,减少幻觉(hallucinations)的风险。然而,评估RAG架构面临挑战,因为需要考虑多个维度:检索系统识别相关和聚焦上下文段落的能力、LLM忠实利用这些段落的能力,以及生成本身的质量。RAGAS提出了一套无需依赖于人类标注的真值(ground truth)的指标,用于评估这些不同的维度,这对于快速评估RAG架构至关重要,尤其是在LLM快速被采用的背景下。
A: 相关研究主要集中在以下几个方面:
这些相关研究为RAGAS框架的开发提供了背景和基础,同时也展示了在自动化评估RAG系统方面的最新进展。
A: 论文通过以下步骤解决了评估检索增强生成(RAG)系统的问题: