Large-scale evaluation shows retrieval-augmented generation yields only marginal and inconsistent gains (1-2 points) over no-retrieval baselines in biomedical QA, with model choice dominating retriever or corpus effects.
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When Retrieval Doesn't Help: A Large-Scale Study of Biomedical RAG
Large-scale evaluation shows retrieval-augmented generation yields only marginal and inconsistent gains (1-2 points) over no-retrieval baselines in biomedical QA, with model choice dominating retriever or corpus effects.