AdaGReS: Redundancy-Aware Context Selection for RAG

This paper addresses a critical issue in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): the inefficiency of standard top-k retrieval, which often includes redundant information. AdaGReS offers a novel solution by introducing a redundancy-aware context selection framework. This framework optimizes a set-level objective that balances relevance and redundancy, employing a greedy selection strategy under a token budget. The key innovation is the instance-adaptive calibration of the relevance-redundancy trade-off parameter, eliminating manual tuning. The paper's theoretical analysis provides guarantees for near-optimality, and experimental results demonstrate improved answer quality and robustness. This work is significant because it directly tackles the problem of token budget waste and improves the performance of RAG systems.