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Faithfulness measures whether generated answers are entirely based on the retrieved context rather than the model's own parametric memory or hallucinations, while relevance measures whether the answer truly addresses the user's question; the two often trade off against each other.
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Is Paid Independent RAG Evaluation Worth It? A Buyer's Real-World Experience Review
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