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Measuring Retrieval Quality Before Adding More Models
Retrieval systems improve faster when evaluation starts with the corpus, queries, and failure modes.
RAGEvaluation
Retrieval quality is a product decision as much as a modeling decision. The right chunking strategy depends on what people ask, what the corpus contains, and how answers are verified.
Make Failures Concrete
Track misses, partial matches, stale documents, and misleading neighbors separately. A single score can hide the exact issue that needs engineering attention.
Code and dashboards help, but the most valuable artifact is a small set of representative questions that the system must answer well.