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- Open Source
- Type
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- openbmb
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- 238 stars
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About
Benchmark and evaluation toolkit for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines — measure how well your RAG actually answers questions.
What it does
RAGEval builds domain-specific evaluation material from seed documents. It extracts a knowledge schema, generates varied documents, creates question, answer, and reference triples, then assesses model responses for retrieval quality and answer defects such as missing information, hallucination, and irrelevant content.
Why it's ranked here
RAGEval is compelling when generic test sets miss the facts and structures of a specialist domain. Its end-to-end dataset-generation concept, bilingual coverage, and separate retrieval and generation measures offer useful diagnostic depth. The implementation shown is research-oriented, however, with script-driven workflows, strict data assumptions, and substantial OpenAI dependence during generation.
What's good
The evaluation runner processes JSONL records concurrently and resumes by skipping query identifiers already written to the output. Its metric registry combines precision, recall, retrieval ranking, ROUGE-L, and key-point analysis. Dataset construction covers schema extraction, document creation, and grounded question generation. English and Chinese post-processing validates expected fields and converts numbered references back into source sentences.
Tradeoffs
The supplied documentation gives links to component folders rather than a complete installation or walkthrough. Generation code uses OpenAI chat completions, environment-based credentials, fixed concurrency, retries, and random request delays. Evaluation expects a particular nested JSONL structure and appends results as workers finish, so output order can differ from input order. Some post-processing retries malformed model output without a stated overall attempt limit.
How to use it well
Use RAGEval for research teams comparing models, retrievers, chunk sizes, or retrieval depth against domain-shaped test data. Start with representative seed documents, inspect generated schemas and references, then run the same metric set across configurations. It does not present itself as a production retrieval service, application framework, or hosted monitoring system.
Technical notes+
rageval/evaluation/main.py exposes an argparse CLI, loads JSONL into memory, skips existing query.query_id values, and dispatches each item through ProcessPoolExecutor; process_item reconstructs evaluators per task, while results are appended in completion order. rageval/evaluation/metrics/__init__.py defines METRICS_REGISTRY for rouge-l, precision, recall, eir, and keypoint_metrics. rageval/evaluation/process_intermediate.py averages selected fields across JSONL files. rageval/qar_generation/code/client.py wraps the OpenAI client with ten worker threads, retries, randomized sleeps, and failure escalation. rageval/qar_generation/code/data_processing/postprocess.py parses bilingual generated JSON, validates domain-specific fields, regenerates malformed responses, and resolves numbered references to sentences. rageval/article_generation/code/schema/construct.py reads interactive domain and article-type input, but the supplied excerpt only prints the resulting schema prompt.
Observed
- Primary language
- Python
- Runtime requirement
- README badge specifies Python 3.10 or newer
- Interface
- Command-line evaluation runner using argparse and JSONL input/output
- Install surface
- The supplied README documents component links but no package installation command
- External service
- Question and article generation code uses the OpenAI Python client and an environment-based API key
- Evaluation metrics
- Registry includes precision, recall, EIR, ROUGE-L, and key-point metrics
- Language coverage
- README and post-processing code support Chinese and English workflows
Read from README.md, rageval/evaluation/main.py, rageval/evaluation/process_intermediate.py, rageval/qar_generation/code/client.py, rageval/evaluation/metrics/__init__.py, rageval/qar_generation/code/utils/utils.py, rageval/article_generation/code/utils/utils.py, rageval/article_generation/code/utils/__init__.py, rageval/article_generation/code/schema/construct.py, rageval/qar_generation/code/data_processing/postprocess.py.
What it can do
Benchmark RAG pipeline performance
Retrieval-augmented generation pipeline → Performance metrics and scores
Evaluate answer quality
Generated answers from RAG system → Quality assessment scores
Measure retrieval accuracy
Query and retrieved documents → Retrieval accuracy metrics
Test question-answering capability
Questions and RAG system responses → Answer correctness evaluation
Generate evaluation reports
RAG pipeline test results → Comprehensive evaluation report
Compare multiple RAG implementations
Multiple RAG pipeline configurations → Comparative performance analysis
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