When RAG Produces Irrelevant Answers: Inspect Vectors First, Then Blame the LLM
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Introduction In an ebook Q&A project, developers encountered a confusing failure case. The top-5 retrieved results were all image references like [../Images/9.jpg] , with a similarity score of 0.08. The large language model generated seemingly professional responses using its built-in parametric kn…
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When RAG Produces Irrelevant Answers: Inspect Vectors First, Then Blame the LLM