arXiv:2503.04800cs.CLcs.AI2025-03ACL被引 17

首个评估过时信息对RAG影响的动态基准,揭示过时数据如何误导模型。

HoH: A Dynamic Benchmark for Evaluating the Impact of Outdated Information on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  • 用词级差异算法和LLM生成真实时间知识演变的问答数据集
  • 过时信息使RAG准确率下降,并可能诱导有害输出
  • 适合研究RAG鲁棒性、时间敏感应用的开发者与研究员

尽管检索增强生成(RAG)已成为缓解大语言模型知识过时的有效方法,但仍面临知识库中广泛存在的过时信息问题。现有研究多聚焦于引入最新信息,却未充分关注检索源中过时信息共存的影响。为此,我们提出HoH,首个专门评估过时信息对RAG影响的动态基准。该基准利用词级差异算法结合大模型流水线,高效构建大规模问答数据集,精准捕捉现实世界事实的时间演化。全面实验表明,过时信息会从两方面显著削弱RAG性能:(1) 显著降低回答准确性,干扰模型获取正确信息;(2) 即使当前信息可用,仍可误导模型生成潜在有害内容。当前RAG方法在检索与生成环节均难以应对过时信息。这些发现凸显了应对RAG时间挑战的紧迫性。代码与数据已开源:https://github.com/0russwest0/HoH。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as an effective approach for addressing the knowledge outdating problem in Large Language Models (LLMs), it still faces a critical challenge: the prevalence of outdated information in knowledge bases. Current research primarily focuses on incorporating up-to-date information, yet the impact of outdated information coexisting in retrieval sources remains inadequately addressed. To bridge this gap, we introduce HoH, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the impact of outdated information on RAG. Our benchmark leverages token-level diff algorithms combined with LLM pipelines to efficiently create a large-scale QA dataset that accurately captures the evolution of temporal knowledge in real-world facts. Through comprehensive experiments, we reveal that outdated information significantly degrades RAG performance in two critical ways: (1) it substantially reduces response accuracy by distracting models from correct information, and (2) it can mislead models into generating potentially harmful outputs, even when current information is available. Current RAG approaches struggle with both retrieval and generation aspects when handling outdated information. These findings highlight the urgent need for innovative solutions to address the temporal challenges in RAG. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/0russwest0/HoH.

RAG过时信息基准测试时间建模

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