Retrieval Budget
The number of documents permitted for retrieval in a single question-answering session, the maximum number of retrieved passages, or the token capacity of the context window. It is an engineering parameter in RAG systems that controls retrieval scale and cost.
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The experiments found that increasing the retrieval budget or switching to a larger retriever improves evidence recall, but this does not reliably translate into higher answer accuracy.
Retrieval budget usually refers to the number of documents allowed to be retrieved in a single question-answering session, the upper limit of recalled passages, or the token capacity of the context window.
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The experiments found that increasing the retrieval budget or switching to a larger retriever improves evidence recall, but this does not reliably translate into higher answer accuracy.
50%UnverifiedRetrieval budget usually refers to the number of documents allowed to be retrieved in a single question-answering session, the upper limit of recalled passages, or the token capacity of the context window.
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