RAG-NIMBF: A Non-Invasive, Modular Benchmarking Framework for Automated RAG Configuration Analysis
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the dominant paradigm for grounding the outputs of large language models (LLM) in external knowledge. However, practitioners are faced with a vast configuration space comprising chunking, embedding, retrieval, reranking, prompting and generation models, and there is limited guidance on how these components interact. We present RAG-NIMBF, a modular benchmarking framework that attaches to existing RAG pipelines as a non-invasive evaluation layer. It evaluates the configuration space through controlled ablation with end-to-end experiment tracking. The evaluation combines LLM-based answer quality scores, retrieval correctness measures, and runti...
| Authors | Niclas Hart, Nicolas Weeger |
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| Primary category | cs.SE |
| Published | 20 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 20 October 2026 |
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