Response Quality Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Conditional Conformal Factuality
Published in SIGIR 2025
Naihe Feng, Yi Sui, Shiyi Hou, Jesse C. Cresswell, Ga Wu
TL;DR: Combines retrieval signals with conformal prediction to filter claims in RAG-generated answers, providing group-conditional reliability guarantees under the method’s assumptions while retaining useful factual content.
Recommended citation: Naihe Feng, Yi Sui, Shiyi Hou, Jesse C. Cresswell, and Ga Wu. 2025. Response Quality Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Conditional Conformal Factuality. Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2832–2836. DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3730244.