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"Dataset for \"UQ-RAG: A Universal and Quality-Aware Framework for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation\""

Jun Ma

IEEE DataPort, 2026

Abstract

"While Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown effectiveness in mitigating hallucinations, existing paradigms suffer from limited domain generalization and uni-dimensional evidence evaluation. In practice, many methods overfit to source domains, leading to severe calibra tion errors when transferred to unseen vertical domains, and remain vulnerable to evidence that is semantically relevant yet logically inconsistent. To address these challenges, we propose UQ-RAG, a unified framework for universal domain adaptation and fine-grained evidence quality perception. First, we introduce an Adversarial Transfer Learning mechanism with a Gradient Reversal Layer (GRL) to explicitly disentangle domain-specific surface features from query-level meta-features (complexity and intent). This design enables robust zero-shot generalization for retrieval decision-making in unseen domains. Second, we propose a knowledge-type-aware retrieval routing mechanism. Based on the query classification results, the model automatically deter mines whether external retrieval is required and further selects between domain-specific knowledge bases and open web search, enabling appropriate knowledge acquisition for different types of queries. Third, to move beyond purely semantic relevance, we develop a multi-dimensional quality distillation strategy. We distill the teacher large language model\u2019s ability to evaluate retrieved evidence along three dimensions\u2014relevance, logical…

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