RAG vs Fine-Tuning

The paper "RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Pipelines, Tradeoffs, and a Case Study on Agriculture" explores the use of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning in large language models. It presents a comparison between RAG and fine-tuning for generating question-answer pairs using high-quality data from various sources. The authors discuss the benefits and drawbacks of both approaches, emphasizing that RAG is effective for tasks where data is contextually relevant, while fine-tuning provides precise output but has a higher cost. They also highlight the importance of using high-quality data sets for fine-tuning and suggest that smaller language models may be more efficient in certain cases. The paper concludes by stating that RAG shows promising results for integrating high-quality QA pairs, but further research is needed to determine its effectiveness in specific use cases.