Debugging RAG Pipelines: Identifying Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
TL;DR
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) combines retrieval and generation to produce accurate, context-rich responses, but debugging these systems can be complex. Common issues include irrelevant retrievals, hallucinations, context overflow, and latency. Effective debugging requires evaluating retrieval quality (precision, recall, MRR, MAP) and generation accuracy (faithfulness, relevance, correctness) while tracing and