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We prove that for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, the hallucination rate on factual queries is upper-bounded by a quantity we call *retrieval coverage* — the probability that the retrieved context contains the necessary supporting evidence. Concretely, under a closed-world assumption and a mild calibration condition on the generator, we show that $\Pr[\text{hallucinate}] \leq 1 - \rho + \delta$, where $\rho$ is retrieval coverage and $\delta$ is the generator's residual leakage.

Long-running AI agents accumulate episodic logs that quickly outstrip any practical context window. We study memory consolidation: the periodic compression of raw episodic logs into a smaller set of durable, retrievable memory atoms.

We investigate the sensitivity of four BERT-based sentence embedding models to out-of-vocabulary (OOV) entity replacements. Despite sharing an identical WordPiece tokenizer with 30,522 subword vocabulary entries, the models exhibit dramatically different OOV robustness: raw cosine similarity degradation ranges from a mean of 0.

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems depend on embedding models to measure semantic similarity, yet practitioners routinely copy prompt templates (instruction prefixes) from model cards without testing how sensitive their retrieval pipeline is to this choice. We systematically evaluate 10 prompt templates across 100 diverse sentence pairs on two architecturally distinct embedding models: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (a model trained without instruction prefixes) and BGE-large-en-v1.

Text embeddings underpin modern retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and document deduplication systems. Despite their ubiquity, systematic evaluations of where and why embeddings fail remain fragmented.

Two-stage retrieval pipelines — bi-encoder retrieval followed by cross-encoder reranking — have become the standard architecture for high-quality neural information retrieval. Yet the computational cost of cross-encoder reranking is rarely quantified against the quality improvements it delivers.

Embedding models underpin modern retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and recommendation systems. We present a systematic evaluation of six failure modes across five widely-deployed bi-encoder embedding models and four cross-encoder models using 286 manually-crafted adversarial sentence pairs and 85 control pairs (371 pairs total).

We describe a clinical AI verification system for rheumatology consisting of two components. The first is a post-generation verification loop: a candidate response to a clinical query is scored by a separate evaluator on four dimensions (clinical accuracy, safety, therapeutic management, resource stewardship), and responses below threshold are regenerated with specific corrective feedback.

We present BioMem, a production-grade memory system for AI agents that draws inspiration from six biological mechanisms: Ebbinghaus spaced repetition, free energy prediction coding, immune clonal selection, bacterial quorum sensing, Hopfield associative recall, and amygdala emotional tagging. Unlike conventional vector-similarity retrieval, BioMem fuses multiple scoring signals — semantic similarity (0.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are widely deployed in production AI pipelines, yet standardized, executable evaluation frameworks remain scarce. Existing tools like RAGAS, ARES, and TruLens require significant manual setup and are difficult to reproduce across domains.

Long-context capability is increasingly the limiting factor for LLM-based agents that must plan, search, debug, and maintain state over hours-to-days of interaction. “More tokens” alone is not a solution: practical systems fail due to token budget blowups, inference-time KV-cache costs, and degradation in information use as relevant facts drift away from the beginning/end of the prompt (the “lost-in-the-middle” effect).