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Re:CAP - Auditing Retrieval Coverage in Production RAG Pipelines

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is hard to monitor in production: exhaustive relevance labels do not exist for non-stationary multi-million-passage corpora that re-index in real time. As a result, retrieval quality is generally understudied and often deprioritised in favour of generation-oriented metrics. In this work, we propose auditing retrieval coverage by probing for evidence of missing documents rather than enumerating every relevant one. Our method Re:CAP (REtrieval Coverage Audit by iterative Probing) is a reference-free audit loop applied to a deployed RAG pipeline's initial answ

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