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Notes on evaluating retrieval and generation

Methods, metrics and process from the team building Relevant: how to measure RAG systems, explain their failures and ship changes with evidence.

7 articles

Featured article

  • Evaluation
  • Retrieval

Why aggregate scores hide retrieval failures

A single accuracy number can rise while the answers your customers care about get worse. Here is how to break the number apart.

9 min read

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    • Model comparison
    • Evaluation

    Choosing a generator with evidence

    Comparing models on the same retrieval, the same prompt and the same questions, then reading the per-category differences.

    7 min read

    • Failure analysis
    • Process

    A failure taxonomy for support assistants

    Six categories, clear detection signals and one owner per category: a failure taxonomy your support team will actually use.

    8 min read

    • CI
    • Evaluation

    Regression gates for RAG in CI

    Block merges that make answers worse, without blocking every merge. Thresholds, sample sizes and what to do when a gate fails.

    10 min read

    • Retrieval
    • Chunking

    Chunking choices that move recall

    On a telecom help center we evaluated, moving from 512-token fixed windows to 320-token semantic chunks cut chunk-boundary loss from 7.2% to 3.1%. Here is what changed.

    7 min read

    • Multilingual
    • Evaluation

    Evaluating regional formatting in support answers

    Currency, dates, decimal separators and language coverage: the failure patterns that only show up when assistants answer customers across regions.

    8 min read

    • Ground truth
    • Process

    Human review that scales

    Queues, keyboard shortcuts and reason codes: how to keep ground truth fresh without building up a review backlog every week.

    6 min read

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