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Evaluate Retrieval Without Generation

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You are building a retrieval-augmented assistant for an internal knowledge base. The team wants to know whether bad answers come from retrieval or from the model's generation step.

Question

Walk me through how you would evaluate retrieval quality independently from generation quality.