RAG & Agents
Faithfulness
The fraction of atomic claims in a generated answer that are supported by the retrieved context.
Why interviewers ask about it
Measured by decomposing the answer into claims and verifying each against the context, usually with an LLM judge. Validate the judge against human labels before trusting it.
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