Advances in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The field of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is witnessing significant developments, with a focus on improving efficiency, accuracy, and robustness. Researchers are exploring innovative approaches to overcome the limitations of traditional RAG pipelines, such as the use of hierarchical memory architectures, context-aware semantic caching, and decoupled planning and execution frameworks. These advancements have the potential to enhance the performance of RAG systems in various applications, including question answering, text generation, and deep search. Noteworthy papers in this area include: PentaRAG, which introduces a five-layer module for large-scale intelligent knowledge retrieval, achieving significant improvements in latency and factual correctness. Frustratingly Simple Retrieval, which presents a minimal RAG pipeline that achieves consistent accuracy improvements across challenging, reasoning-intensive benchmarks using a compact, high-quality, web-scale datastore. Decoupled Planning and Execution, which proposes a hierarchical reasoning framework that separates strategic planning from specialized execution, outperforming state-of-the-art RAG and agent-based systems in complex, cross-modal deep search benchmarks.

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Assessing RAG and HyDE on 1B vs. 4B-Parameter Gemma LLMs for Personal Assistants Integretion

PentaRAG: Large-Scale Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval for Enterprise LLM Applications

ContextCache: Context-Aware Semantic Cache for Multi-Turn Queries in Large Language Models

Machine Assistant with Reliable Knowledge: Enhancing Student Learning via RAG-based Retrieval

Benchmarking Deep Search over Heterogeneous Enterprise Data

Hierarchical Memory Organization for Wikipedia Generation

Towards Robustness: A Critique of Current Vector Database Assessments

\texttt{WebANNS}: Fast and Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Web Browsers

MobileRAG: A Fast, Memory-Efficient, and Energy-Efficient Method for On-Device RAG

Frustratingly Simple Retrieval Improves Challenging, Reasoning-Intensive Benchmarks

Decoupled Planning and Execution: A Hierarchical Reasoning Framework for Deep Search

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