Per-Component Evaluation
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How to decompose LLM systems and evaluate each component independently with the right metric.
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Key points
- •Each component can fail independently; end-to-end eval cannot isolate which stage caused the failure
- •Use automated metrics (Recall@K, MRR) for retrieval; AI-as-Judge for generation quality
- •Inject perfect context to test generation in isolation from retrieval errors