arXiv:2606. 16316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving external knowledge is essential for solving real-world tasks, yet it remains challenging when the relationship between a query and its relevant knowledge involves implicit and complex reasoning beyond surface-level semantic or lexical matching (e.
By Yongjia Lei, Nedim Lipka, Zhisheng Qi, Utkarsh Sahu, Koustava Goswami, Franck Dernoncourt, Ryan A. Rossi, Yu Wang
The paper introduces DRAG, a query‑adaptive framework that jointly selects retriever and generator configurations for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Two variants are presented: DRAG_QPP, a training‑free routing method using Query Performance Prediction and perplexity signals, and DRAG_SFT, a supervised approach that fine‑tunes an LLM to predict configurations. Experiments on three LLM families and four QA benchmarks show that DRAG_QPP matches strong static baselines while cutting inference latency, and DRAG_SFT consistently outperforms both static and training‑free adaptive baselines, demonstrating a better effectiveness‑efficiency trade‑off.
By Neeraj Anand, Payel Santra, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Debasis Ganguly, Sumit Bhatia
arXiv:2607. 10463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends static RAG by allowing language models to iteratively reason, generate search queries, retrieve evidence, and predict answers.
By Varun Gandhi, Jaewook Lee, Shantanu Todmal, Franck Dernoncourt, Ryan Rossi, Zichao Wang, Andrew Lan
arXiv:2609.07093v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to answer questions by accessing external knowledge and has been widely a...
By Yifan Wang, Xinkui Lin, Yongxiu Xu, Shen Gao, Ruochen Yang, Kun Huang, Yubin Wang, Jie Wu, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Shang
arXiv:2602.04926v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for knowledge-intensive LLM tasks. Complex reasoning remains challenging...
By Ning Wang, Kuanyan Zhu, Daniel Yuehwoon Yee, Yitang Gao, Shiying Huang, Zirun Xu, Sainyam Galhotra
Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge. However, retrieving the appropriate skill from a large- scale library remains challenging because realistic user re- quests are often concise and underspecified, stating only the task goal while leaving the required capabilities and execu- tion steps implicit.
The paper introduces ORDER, a task‑conditioned retrieval‑augmented generation framework that dynamically adapts both indexing and retrieval strategies to each incoming query. It first clusters questions to learn cluster‑specific chunking, metadata filtering, and reranking settings, then routes queries to the appropriate pre‑built index via nearest‑centroid assignment. Additionally, a supervised query router predicts relevant collections and a Uniform Multi‑source Sampler distributes the retrieval budget evenly across selected sources, yielding superior performance on heterogeneous historical archives compared to existing RAG systems.
By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez, Marie Puren
arXiv:2610.29189v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive emergent reasoning capabilities, yet they remain constrained by fixed model parameters and finite...
By Biswas Poudel, Nilson Chapagain, Amit Kumar, Xianshun Jiang
Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends static RAG by allowing language models to iteratively reason, generate search queries, retrieve evidence, and predict answers. However, it remains challenging for models to decide when to retrieve, whether to use lexical matching or semantic similarity, and how to control context granularity to prevent irrelevant tokens from interfering with agent reasoning.
arXiv:2608. 08640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge.
By Donghong Jiang, Endian Lin, Luoping Cui, Hanqing Liu, Mingjie Liu, Fan Yang, Hong Wang, Zhao Yang, Chuang Zhu
Clarify-Then-Search is a benchmark that tests whether large language models can ask clarification questions to improve the usefulness of deep search results. It uses 518 real-world query pairs from Baidu, where each intent query is paired with an underspecified version. The evaluation involves a clarifier asking up to three questions, a user answerer providing only explicit information, and a rewriter generating a new query that is then searched; performance is measured by a weighted nugget-recall score.
By Deqiang Huang, Jingbo Zhou, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Hua Wu, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2601.08747v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Current context augmentation methods, such as retrieval-augmented generation, play a crucial role in bridging a model's internal knowledge bo...
By Rubing Chen, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li, Xiao-Yong Wei, Qing Li