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AGT.06.04 Mid-levelCore — asked often

Evaluating RAG

Comes up in: AI engineering, AI system design

This concept is being written. It gets the full five steps — explanation, predict, interview angle, practice with tests, and review cards. Here is exactly what it will cover, so you can study it elsewhere in the meantime.

What it covers

  • retrieval metrics (recall@k, MRR, nDCG)
  • answer metrics (faithfulness, relevance, correctness)
  • building a golden set
  • LLM-as-judge with calibration against humans

Words you will know

recall@kfaithfulnessgolden dataset

What you will practise

  • 50-question eval harness for the lesson RAG