RAILS: Retrieval-Augmented Incremental LLM Clustering at Scale
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Using a Large Language Model (LLM) as the clusterer at production scale is hard: prompts cannot hold the entire label space, and per-document serial processing does not deliver the throughput real wor...
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The paper proposes an incremental pooled LLM evaluation method for selecting retrieval models in production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. By having a language model judge the union of documents retrieved by current candidates and expanding the pool only with new documents from added systems, the approach reuses judgments across all systems. Experiments on four benchmarks and a financial news QA deployment show strong correlation with gold-standard rankings, high preservation of pairwise orderings, and significant cost savings—up to 4.9× lower evaluation cost and 65–80% judgment reuse.
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