True wisdom is knowing not just how to use RAG, but when to use it.

🛠 RAG significantly improves LLM performance by reducing factual errors and hallucinations, yet
deploying RAG across all types of user queries can result in unnecessary computational overhead
for straightforward questions that could be more efficiently addressed.

❓What if you could choose to use RAG or not, depending on the user's query to the LLM? This
way, you could save time by skipping the retrieval of extra information when it's not needed.

💡 Enter Adaptive-RAG

Adaptive-RAG, a recent research, achieves exactly this by dynamically choosing the best strategy
to handle queries according to their complexity.

⛳ Adaptive RAG employs a Query Complexity Classifier: A compact LLM classifier is designed to
assess the complexity of incoming queries, trained with labels gathered automatically.

⛳The classifier guides the choice of the most fitting retrieval-augmented LLM approach, ensuring
an efficient and effective response strategy:

📌 Simple Queries: For straightforward questions, the system defaults to a direct LLM response,
minimizing computational resources.

📌Complex Queries: When faced with intricate or multi-step queries, Adaptive RAG opts for
retrieval-augmented strategies, leveraging external knowledge bases for comprehensive answers.

😎 Adaptive RAG can thus intelligently choose the best strategy for retrieval-augmented LLMs—
whether it's iterative, single, or no retrieval—depending on the query's complexity, as identified
by our classifier.

📖 The model is validated on a set of open-domain QA datasets covering a wide range of query
complexities, demonstrating improved efficiency and accuracy over existing models, including
adaptive retrieval approaches.

Read "Adaptive-RAG: Learning to Adapt Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models through

Question Complexity" for more insights

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