hoBIT: A Profile-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Chatbot for University Academic Advising

arXiv:2608.26604 · cs.IR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval

Terminology

• RAG — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computer Science — 5× in this paper
• Grounded Correctness — 4× in this paper
• Source Match — 4× in this paper
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence — 2× in this paper
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 2× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• LLM-judged Answer Correctness — 1× in this paper
• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• Passage Re-ranking with BERT

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