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Dags are the wrong abstraction for multi-agent systems

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ofermend
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Gemini-3-flash is now on Vectara hallucination leaderboard, and rated at 13.5% grounded hallucination rate.

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
We just evaluated Nemotron-3 for Vectara's hallucination leaderboard.

It scores at 9.6% hallucination rate, similar to qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking (9.3%) but of course it is much smaller.

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
GPT-5.2 just added to Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard. Definitely an improvement over GPT-5.1 - congrats to the team

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Can't wait to try Opus 4.5

We just evaluated it for Vectara's grounded hallucination leaderboard: it scores at 10.9% hallucination rate, better than Gemini-3, GPT-5.1-high or Grok-4.

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
If you have built AI agents in the last 6-12 months you know they fail a lot.

I built this repository to be a community-curated list of failure modes, techniques to mitigate, and other resources, so that we can all learn from each other and build better agents.

Contributions encouraged!
ofermend
·12 месяцев назад·discuss
Enterprise Deep Research is like "consumer" deep research just pointed at your private data, and I think may become the "killer app" of Agentic AI for business.

Lots of valuable use-cases: compliance monitoring, sales enablement, onboarding, legal, and many others.

What use-cases would you use this for?
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
One of the biggest challenges in RAG Evaluation is the assumption that you somehow can get the "source of truth" generated, specifically the set of "golden answers" (or golden chunks/documents). In practice that is extremely difficult and non scalable. Open-RAG-Eval is a new open source project that aims to address that via reference-free evaluation such as UMBRELA and AutoNuggetizer scores.

Repo: https://github.com/vectara/open-rag-eval and a nice UI to use this with: openevaluation.ai

Would love to hear feedback on this after you try it out and what you might want to see on the roadmap.
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
Well, we expect AI to become AGI sometime in the future. Some say it's here, others say it's in 5 years or 50 years or whatever. So imagine AGI is here already (for sake of argument), and really has superintelligence, and will be able to have agency. How do we need to treat "it"? Over history, humans and society created mechanism to overcome distrust, and our ability to collaborate is what helped us thrive. Should we think about our upcoming "relationship" with AI from that perspective as well?
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
RAG Evaluation is difficult, primarily because it's hard to come up with "golden answers" (or golden chunks).

We made Open-RAG-Eval to solve this - RAG Eval that only requires the question, yet provides great metrics for retrieval, generation, hallucination and citations for any RAG setup.

This was in collaboration with Jimmy Lin and his students at UWaterloo.

It has connectors to LangChain, LlamaIndex and Vectara, and hoping others can contribute more connectors to other RAG systems.

repo: https://github.com/vectara/open-rag-eval

UI for reviewing eval results: https://openevaluation.ai/

Papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06519 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15068
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
A great day for open source, and so glad to see llama4 out. However, I'm a bit disappointed that the hallucination rates of Llama4 are not as low as I would have liked (TL;DR slightly higher than Llama3).

Check the numbers on the hallucination leaderboard: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
This model is quite impressive. Not just useful for math/research with great reasoning, it also maintained a very low hallucination rate of 1.1% on Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
It is common these days to see in large companies multiple teams developing isolated RAG applications. This is similar to the problem of "Shadow IT" back in the early cloud era - causes a big headache to IT teams.

I work at Vectara, and we see this all the time. Wondering how others are experiencing this?
ofermend
·в прошлом году·discuss
DeepSeek-R1 is an amazing reasoning LLM, but it seems to hallucinate more than we might expect.
ofermend
·2 года назад·discuss
Gemini-2.0-Flash does extremely well on the Hallucination Evaluation Leaderboard, at 1.3% hallucination rate https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·2 года назад·discuss
We've done a study (see link) that shows that - unlike common belief - semantic chunking is not always the best approach.

Curious to hear from the YC community - anyone else did systemic testing and if so what did you find?
ofermend
·2 года назад·discuss
Check out Granite 3.0 on the hallucination leaderboard: https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
ofermend
·2 года назад·discuss
We recently launched UDF reranking as part of the RAG stack, and we think this supports a lot of interesting use-cases to go beyond simple relevance. For example, it supports ranking by distance (geo-location), by recency, and more.

I wanted to ask advice from the HN community: what are some real use-cases you have that can benefit from UDF reranking in RAG?
ofermend
·2 года назад·discuss
I remember the Magnus/Niemann controversy from 2023 - that was quite a drama... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen%E2%80%93Niemann_contro...