Retrieval adds a "hop" before generation. How would you minimize the time-to-first-token (TTFT) for a user?

How do you programmatically measure Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, and Context Precision?

How would you adjust your pipeline if the source documents contained both text and complex financial charts/tables?

A user asks, "How does the CEO's bonus this year compare to the company's Q3 revenue?" How do you retrieve the two separate pieces of information needed for this?