SoK: Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Taxonomy, Architectures, Evaluation, and Research Directions

arXiv:2603.07379 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CR, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-03-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CR, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-03-07

Updated: 2026-10-29

Terminology

• RAG — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 2× in this paper · explained in 21 episodes
• Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 1× in this paper
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Systematization of Knowledge — 1× in this paper
• Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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