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Autori principali: Xu, Xiwei, Weytjens, Hans, Zhang, Dawen, Lu, Qinghua, Weber, Ingo, Zhu, Liming
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03401
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author Xu, Xiwei
Weytjens, Hans
Zhang, Dawen
Lu, Qinghua
Weber, Ingo
Zhu, Liming
author_facet Xu, Xiwei
Weytjens, Hans
Zhang, Dawen
Lu, Qinghua
Weber, Ingo
Zhu, Liming
contents Recent studies show that 60% of LLM-based compound systems in enterprise environments leverage some form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which enhances the relevance and accuracy of LLM (or other genAI) outputs by retrieving relevant information from external data sources. LLMOps involves the practices and techniques for managing the lifecycle and operations of LLM compound systems in production environments. It supports enhancing LLM systems through continuous operations and feedback evaluation. RAGOps extends LLMOps by incorporating a strong focus on data management to address the continuous changes in external data sources. This necessitates automated methods for evaluating and testing data operations, enhancing retrieval relevance and generation quality. In this paper, we (1) characterize the generic architecture of RAG applications based on the 4+1 model view for describing software architectures, (2) outline the lifecycle of RAG systems, which integrates the management lifecycles of both the LLM and the data, (3) define the key design considerations of RAGOps across different stages of the RAG lifecycle and quality trade-off analyses, (4) highlight the overarching research challenges around RAGOps, and (5) present two use cases of RAG applications and the corresponding RAGOps considerations.
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spellingShingle RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
Xu, Xiwei
Weytjens, Hans
Zhang, Dawen
Lu, Qinghua
Weber, Ingo
Zhu, Liming
Software Engineering
Recent studies show that 60% of LLM-based compound systems in enterprise environments leverage some form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which enhances the relevance and accuracy of LLM (or other genAI) outputs by retrieving relevant information from external data sources. LLMOps involves the practices and techniques for managing the lifecycle and operations of LLM compound systems in production environments. It supports enhancing LLM systems through continuous operations and feedback evaluation. RAGOps extends LLMOps by incorporating a strong focus on data management to address the continuous changes in external data sources. This necessitates automated methods for evaluating and testing data operations, enhancing retrieval relevance and generation quality. In this paper, we (1) characterize the generic architecture of RAG applications based on the 4+1 model view for describing software architectures, (2) outline the lifecycle of RAG systems, which integrates the management lifecycles of both the LLM and the data, (3) define the key design considerations of RAGOps across different stages of the RAG lifecycle and quality trade-off analyses, (4) highlight the overarching research challenges around RAGOps, and (5) present two use cases of RAG applications and the corresponding RAGOps considerations.
title RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03401