Predicting Retrieval Utility and Answer Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

@inproceedings{tian-2026-predicting, author = {Fangzheng Tian and Debasis Ganguly and Craig Macdonald}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Predicting Retrieval Utility and Answer Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16483}, pages = {368--385}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_24}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_24} }