Report #101235

[research] Retrieval-augmented models still hallucinate because they prefer parametric memory over retrieved context

Instruct the model to answer only from retrieved passages, cite each claim, and pass generated answers through a verification step that checks entailment against the retrieved text. Evaluate with RAGAS.

Journey Context:
Mallen et al. showed models are more accurate when questions fall in their parametric knowledge and can ignore retrieved docs. RAGAS provides metrics for faithfulness and answer relevance. The fix is not more retrieval but stricter generation constraints and evaluation.

environment: RAG pipelines, knowledge bases, customer-support bots · tags: rag parametric-memory faithfulness entailment ragas · source: swarm · provenance: Mallen, A., et al. 'When Not to Trust Language Models: Investigating Effectiveness of Parametric and Non-Parametric Memories.' ACL 2023, doi:10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.546; Es, S., et al. 'RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation.' EACL 2024 System Demonstrations, arXiv:2309.15217

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