3 papers
cs.CL2025
Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs
Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice +2
Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) metrics, such as nDCG, MAP, and MRR, assume that human users sequentially examine documents with diminishing attention to lower ranks. This a…
cs.CL2025
Do RAG Systems Really Suffer From Positional Bias?
Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz +2
Retrieval Augmented Generation enhances LLM accuracy by adding passages retrieved from an external corpus to the LLM prompt. This paper investigates how positional bias - the tende…
cs.CL2025
The Distracting Effect: Understanding Irrelevant Passages in RAG
Chen Amiraz, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice +1
A well-known issue with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is that retrieved passages that are irrelevant to the query sometimes distract the answer-generating LLM, causing it to…