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Vendi-RAG: Adaptively Trading-Off Diversity And Quality Significantly Improves R

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2026

Abstract

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific question-answering (QA) tasks by leveraging external knowledge sources. However, traditional RAG systems primarily focus on relevance-based retrieval and often struggle with redundancy, especially when reasoning requires connecting information from multiple sources. This paper introduces Vendi-RAG, a framework based on an iterative process that jointly optimizes retrieval diversity and answer quality. This joint optimization leads to significantly higher accuracy for multi-hop QA tasks. Vendi-RAG lev Research goal: What is the trade-off in inference efficiency (throughput in queries per second) when applying adversarial training on multi-hop queries to a dense retriever (e.g., Contriever) in a RAG system, evaluated on HotPotQA and SQuAD subsets? Autonomous synthesis report generated by SOVEREIGN Research Kernel. Tribunal consensus score: 7.5/10.

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