The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems — HN submission

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:55:14 GMT

Ask HN: Including irrelevant documents improve RAG accuracy by 30%?

I was very intrigued after reading "The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems" paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14887.pdf), where they explored the impact of relevance, position and the number of retrieved documents on the accuracy of a RAG pipeline. The authors defined 3 sets of documents: 1. Golden document - One which contains the answer to the given question. 2. Relevant documents - A set of documents that talk about the same topic but don't contain the answer to the question. 3. Irrelevant documents - A set of documents that talk about different unrelated topics and…

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