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If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

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Re: If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

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This is a three-way collaboration between Berkeley AI, Microsoft Azure, and Meta AI! RAFT involves the concept of domain-specific RAG, which represents a more focused and growingly favored area compared to the broader concept of the general open-book exam. In such exams, the domain in which the LLM will be evaluated is known in advance and used for inference. The LLM is capable of addressing prompts by leveraging any and all information from this particular domain, on which it has been specifically fine-tuned.

Blogs: https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/blogs/9_raft.html

Re: If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

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> They hypothesized that a student who studies the textbooks before the open-book exam was likely to perform better than a student who studies the textbook.

interesting hypothesis, but probably not what was meant.

“editor” is shaping up to be the hot new job for fleshy consciousnesses by the early thirties.

Re: If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

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Am I missing the point or is this not how everyone was doing RAG before? I've had my much greater success doing the RAG process on a fine tuned model.

> Am I missing the point or is this not how everyone was doing RAG before?

No, especially people wrapping RAG frameworks around models they don’t have access to fine tune (e.g., GPT-4 if you aren't OpenAI and/or Microsoft.)

Edit: Of course, further evidence that this method is useful doesn't help people in that condition, though.

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