OmniEval: An Omnidirectional and Automatic RAG Evaluation Benchmark in
  Financial Domain
Authors: name: Shuting Wang; name: Jiejun Tan; name: Zhicheng Dou; name: Ji-Rong Wen
Published: 2024-12-17 15:38:42

Abstract: As a typical and practical application of Large Language Models (LLMs),
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques have gained extensive
attention, particularly in vertical domains where LLMs may lack domain-specific
knowledge. In this paper, we introduce an omnidirectional and automatic RAG
benchmark, OmniEval, in the financial domain. Our benchmark is characterized by
its multi-dimensional evaluation framework, including (1) a matrix-based RAG
scenario evaluation system that categorizes queries into five task classes and
16 financial topics, leading to a structured assessment of diverse query
scenarios; (2) a multi-dimensional evaluation data generation approach, which
combines GPT-4-based automatic generation and human annotation, achieving an
87.47\% acceptance ratio in human evaluations on generated instances; (3) a
multi-stage evaluation system that evaluates both retrieval and generation
performance, result in a comprehensive evaluation on the RAG pipeline; and (4)
robust evaluation metrics derived from rule-based and LLM-based ones, enhancing
the reliability of assessments through manual annotations and supervised
fine-tuning of an LLM evaluator. Our experiments demonstrate the
comprehensiveness of OmniEval, which includes extensive test datasets and
highlights the performance variations of RAG systems across diverse topics and
tasks, revealing significant opportunities for RAG models to improve their
capabilities in vertical domains. We open source the code of our benchmark in
https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/OmniEval{https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/OmniEval}.