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Main Authors: Sousa, Pedro, Mello, Cláudio Klautau, Morte, Frank B., Navarro, Luis F. Solis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20188
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author Sousa, Pedro
Mello, Cláudio Klautau
Morte, Frank B.
Navarro, Luis F. Solis
author_facet Sousa, Pedro
Mello, Cláudio Klautau
Morte, Frank B.
Navarro, Luis F. Solis
contents Question-answering tasks in the telecom domain are still reasonably unexplored in the literature, primarily due to the field's rapid changes and evolving standards. This work presents a novel Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework explicitly designed for the telecommunication domain, focusing on datasets composed of 3GPP documents. The framework introduces the use of the Bisecting K-Means clustering technique to organize the embedding vectors by contents, facilitating more efficient information retrieval. By leveraging this clustering technique, the system pre-selects a subset of clusters that are most similar to the user's query, enhancing the relevance of the retrieved information. Aiming for models with lower computational cost for inference, the framework was tested using Small Language Models, demonstrating improved performance with an accuracy of 66.12% on phi-2 and 72.13% on phi-3 fine-tuned models, and reduced training time.
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spellingShingle Bisecting K-Means in RAG for Enhancing Question-Answering Tasks Performance in Telecommunications
Sousa, Pedro
Mello, Cláudio Klautau
Morte, Frank B.
Navarro, Luis F. Solis
Information Retrieval
Question-answering tasks in the telecom domain are still reasonably unexplored in the literature, primarily due to the field's rapid changes and evolving standards. This work presents a novel Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework explicitly designed for the telecommunication domain, focusing on datasets composed of 3GPP documents. The framework introduces the use of the Bisecting K-Means clustering technique to organize the embedding vectors by contents, facilitating more efficient information retrieval. By leveraging this clustering technique, the system pre-selects a subset of clusters that are most similar to the user's query, enhancing the relevance of the retrieved information. Aiming for models with lower computational cost for inference, the framework was tested using Small Language Models, demonstrating improved performance with an accuracy of 66.12% on phi-2 and 72.13% on phi-3 fine-tuned models, and reduced training time.
title Bisecting K-Means in RAG for Enhancing Question-Answering Tasks Performance in Telecommunications
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20188