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LLM billing assistant struggles with number narration, not retrieval

A WhatsApp assistant for an internet service provider was developed to answer billing questions, but encountered issues not with retrieval accuracy, but with the language model misrepresenting correct numerical data. The system employs a hybrid retrieval method combining pgvector for semantic search and PostgreSQL's full-text search for specific identifiers, fused using Reciprocal Rank Fusion. To address the model's tendency to hallucinate or misstate numbers, a grounding verifier and a humanizer step were implemented to catch and correct errors before sending a response to the user. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for robust grounding and output verification in LLM applications, especially when dealing with factual data like billing information.

RANK_REASON The item describes the implementation and challenges of a specific application of RAG for a business use case, rather than a novel model release or research breakthrough.

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LLM billing assistant struggles with number narration, not retrieval

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Softronic ·

    Corrective RAG for billing: the bug is not retrieval, it's the model narrating correct numbers wrong

    <p>Most RAG demos are graded by an audience that cannot check the answer. Ask a docs bot something, get a fluent paragraph back, nobody in the room knows whether sentence three is invented. The demo lands.</p> <p>Billing is not like that. When a subscriber asks <em>"why is my bil…