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RAG Failure Mode Taxonomy: A Diagnostic Framework
RAG systems fail in distinct ways — retrieval miss, retrieval noise, synthesis hallucination, attribution drift. A taxonomy speeds diagnosis.
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- 1The premise
- 2RAG taxonomy
- 3retrieval miss
- 4synthesis hallucination
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Section 1
The premise
AI can structure a RAG-failure taxonomy and diagnostic flow, but instrumenting your pipeline to label failures takes engineering work.
What AI does well here
- Draft taxonomy diagrams covering retrieval, ranking, synthesis, and attribution failures.
- Generate diagnostic decision trees for triage.
What AI cannot do
- Instrument your pipeline for failure labeling.
- Decide remediation priorities for your team.
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