Large Language Model
DiagnosingRetrieval-AugmentedGeneration
EvaluatingRAGsystems,however,presentsseveralchallenges: (1) modular complexity: The modular nature of RAG systems, comprising both a retriever and a generator, complicates the design of effective evaluation metrics. It is crucial to establish metrics that can holistically assess the entire system as well as evaluate the individual modules and their interplay [53],allowing for fully understanding the sources ofthe errors and misses and howthey aregenerated.
Mind the Gap: Understanding the Modality Gap in Multi-modal Contrastive Representation Learning
During optimization, contrastive learning keeps the different modalities separated by a certain distance, which is influenced by the temperature parameter in the loss function. Our experiments further demonstrate that varying the modality gap distance has a significant impact in improving the model's downstream zero-shot classification performance and fairness.