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At k=1 the lab produced 10 wrong answers, 9 of them retrieval failures. At k=3 it produced 10 again, but 7 were generation failures. What changed between the two runs?

Only the number of documents retrieved per question, Same model, same prompt, same 40 documents, same questions. Only k changed. For six of the nine, the retriever was already putting the right document inside its top three, so asking for three instead of one handed the model the evidence. Note the total stayed at ten: those answers did not all become correct, and seven answers that now had their evidence were wrong anyway.

Your eval shows the answer was correct, but the answer-bearing document was NOT in the context. How should you score it?

As a defect. The model answered from training memory, not from your documents, It looks identical to working retrieval on every dashboard. But the model is reciting what it learned in training rather than reading your corpus, so it will keep giving the old answer after your documents change, and no metric will move until someone complains.

Why does the hierarchy insist you fix retrieval before generation?

A generation fix measured on missing evidence is measuring noise, and failures queue behind the earliest broken stage, If the right document is not reaching the model, improving the prompt only changes what the model says about the wrong document. In this lab, generation failures went from one to seven once retrieval improved. They were not created by the fix; the retriever had been hiding them.

Two teams both report 75% accuracy on their RAG system. What can you conclude about their next sprint?

Nothing. The same score is consistent with entirely different work, One team's failures may all have the evidence present, making it a prompt problem. The other's may all lack it, making it an index problem. The end-to-end number is identical and the tickets have nothing in common. That is why the split is worth one extra logged field.

Which part of this measurement is LEAST open to a grader's bias?

Whether the answer-bearing document was in the context, because it is a set membership test, gold_in_context is computed from the retrieved ids and the eval set's recorded answer document. No model has an opinion about it and no rubric can be unclear about it. Prefer measurements like that wherever you can get them.

The Error Hierarchy: Which Failure to Fix First

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