Towards Data Science By Abdullahi Dattijo

Does Agentic RAG Actually Retrieve Better Evidence? I Tested It on 298 Questions

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The article reports on an experiment where an AI agent was allowed to search for evidence whenever it chose. The agent discovered some papers that a standard search missed, but also lost some that the plain search had found, and overall the gains were insufficient to be trusted. The post examines whether agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) truly retrieves better evidence across 298 questions.

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Can an Apartment Search Agent Call the Model Fewer Times and Still Find Good Matches?

The article examines whether an apartment search agent can reduce the number of times it calls a predictive model while still identifying suitable matches. The author conducted 2,500 listing checks using Weights & Biases Weave, systematically eliminating unnecessary model computations, and evaluated each iteration against consistent reference answers.

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