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20232025
most citedSeven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System

9 citations · 26 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AI2025

TaskEval: Synthesised Evaluation for Foundation-Model Tasks

Dilani Widanapathiranage, Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan +1

Hallucinations are a key concern when creating applications that rely on Foundation models (FMs). Understanding where and how these subtle failures occur in an application relies o…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

RAGProbe: An Automated Approach for Evaluating RAG Applications

Shangeetha Sivasothy, Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan +2

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly being used when building Generative AI applications. Evaluating these applications and RAG pipelines is mostly done manually, v…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Fine-Tuning or Fine-Failing? Debunking Performance Myths in Large Language Models

Scott Barnett, Zac Brannelly, Stefanus Kurniawan +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the unique capability to understand and generate human-like text from input queries. When fine-tuned, these models show enhanced performance on do…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

LLMs for Test Input Generation for Semantic Caches

Zafaryab Rasool, Scott Barnett, David Willie +4

Large language models (LLMs) enable state-of-the-art semantic capabilities to be added to software systems such as semantic search of unstructured documents and text generation. Ho…

cs.SE2024★ 9 cited

Seven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System

Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan, Srikanth Thudumu +2

Software engineers are increasingly adding semantic search capabilities to applications using a strategy known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). A RAG system involves findin…

cs.IR2023★ 7 cited

Evaluating LLMs on Document-Based QA: Exact Answer Selection and Numerical Extraction using Cogtale dataset

Zafaryab Rasool, Stefanus Kurniawan, Sherwin Balugo +7

Document-based Question-Answering (QA) tasks are crucial for precise information retrieval. While some existing work focus on evaluating large language models performance on retrie…