Rethinking Knowledge Retrieval for Generation: A Survey on RAG Architectures and Applications

arXiv:2610.01936 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-06

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study of Best Practices
• Fact, Fetch, and Reason: A Unified Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey on Agentic RAG
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Graphs (GraphRAG)
• Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation
• TrustRAG: Enhancing Robustness and Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Video Corpus
• MiniRAG: Towards Extremely Simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• BEIR: A Heterogenous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models
• SafeRAG: Benchmarking Security in Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Large Language Model
• Training Data is More Valuable than You Think: A Simple and Effective Method by Retrieving from Training Data
• Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models
• REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training
• Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
• Memory Networks
• Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions
• UnifiedQA: Crossing Format Boundaries With a Single QA System
• Autoregressive Entity Retrieval
• Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
• ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT

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