RetrievalQA: Assessing Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Short-form Open-Domain Question Answering (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for assessing retrieval of relevant information are understudied . previous studies have neglected to evaluate ARAG methods . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate existing ARAG methods that use threshold tuning to adjust retrieval for queries instead of indiscriminate retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to evaluate existing ARAG methods without calibration or training. |
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