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The retrieval augmented generation (RAG) framework addresses an ambiguity in user queries in QA systems by retrieving passages that cover all plausible interpretations and generating comprehensive responses based on the passages. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yeonjun In , Sungchul Kim , Ryan A. Rossi , Md Mehrab Tanjim , Tong Yu , Ritwik Sinha , Chanyoung Park

The recently developed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology has enabled the efficient construction of domain-specific applications. However, it also has limitations, including the gap between vector similarity and the relevance…

Iterative Retrieval-Augmented Generation (iRAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for answering complex multi-hop questions by progressively retrieving and reasoning over external documents. However, current systems predominantly operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Peiyang Liu , Ziqiang Cui , Xi Wang , Di Liang , Wei Ye

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) plays a crucial role in grounding Large Language Models by leveraging external knowledge, whereas the effectiveness is often compromised by the retrieval of contextually flawed or incomplete information.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yaoze Zhang , Rong Wu , Pinlong Cai , Xiaoman Wang , Guohang Yan , Song Mao , Ding Wang , Botian Shi

Visual retrieval-augmented generation (VRAG) augments vision-language models (VLMs) with external visual knowledge to ground reasoning and reduce hallucinations. Yet current VRAG systems often fail to reliably perceive and integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yubo Sun , Chunyi Peng , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Zhenghao Liu , Chi Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been proposed to mitigate hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), where generated outputs may be factually incorrect. However, existing RAG approaches predominantly rely on vector similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Miao Xie , Xiao Zhang , Yi Li , Chunli Lv

Visual quality assessment (VQA) is increasingly shifting from scalar score prediction toward interpretable quality understanding -- a paradigm that demands \textit{fine-grained spatiotemporal perception} and \textit{auxiliary contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Kaiwei Zhang , Jun Jia , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

We present DynaRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework designed to handle both static and time-sensitive information needs through dynamic knowledge integration. Unlike traditional RAG pipelines that rely solely on static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Penghao Liang , Mengwei Yuan , Jianan Liu , Jing Yang , Xianyou Li , Weiran Yan , Yichao Wu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly mitigated the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding the generation with external knowledge. Recent extensions of RAG to graph-based retrieval offer a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jialin Chen , Houyu Zhang , Seongjun Yun , Alejandro Mottini , Rex Ying , Xiang Song , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Zheng Li , Qingjun Cui

Complex information needs in real-world search scenarios demand deep reasoning and knowledge synthesis across diverse sources, which traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines struggle to address effectively. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiajie Jin , Xiaoxi Li , Guanting Dong , Yuyao Zhang , Yutao Zhu , Yang Zhao , Hongjin Qian , Zhicheng Dou

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged to address the knowledge-intensive visual question answering (VQA) task. Current methods mainly employ separate retrieval and generation modules to acquire external knowledge and generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xinwei Long , Zhiyuan Ma , Ermo Hua , Kaiyan Zhang , Biqing Qi , Bowen Zhou

Professional domain knowledge underpins human civilization, serving as both the basis for industry entry and the core of complex decision-making and problem-solving. However, existing large language models often suffer from opaque inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xudong Wang , Zilong Wang , Zhaoyan Ming

Retrieval-based multimodal document QA aims to identify and integrate relevant information from visually rich documents with complex multimodal structures. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has shown strong performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hui Wu , Haoquan Zhai , Yuchen Li , Hengyi Cai , Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Lei Wang , Chunle Wang , Yingyan Hou , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Retrieval-augmented generation combined with reinforcement learning has shown promise for grounding large language models in trustworthy medical evidence. However, existing methods rely on exact-match binary rewards, which in clinical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuwei Miao , Gen Li , Yunsheng Zeng , Xiandong Li , Yujin Wang , Siyu Chen , Luning Wang , Yunhao Qiao , Junfeng Wang , Jianwei Lv , Bo Yuan

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for rare entities and long-tail facts. Most existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuohong Chen , Zhenxian Wu , Yunyao Yu , Hangrui Xu , Zirui Liao , Zhifang Liu , Xiangwen Deng , Pen Jiao , Haoqian Wang

Diffusion models enable high-quality and diverse visual content synthesis. However, they struggle to generate rare or unseen concepts. To address this challenge, we explore the usage of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Rinon Gal , Amit H. Bermano , Ohad Fried

Effectively retrieving, reasoning, and understanding multimodal information remains a critical challenge for agentic systems. Traditional Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) methods rely on linear interaction histories, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiuchen Wang , Shihang Wang , Yu Zeng , Qiang Zhang , Fanrui Zhang , Zhuoning Guo , Bosi Zhang , Wenxuan Huang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Pengjun Xie , Ruixue Ding

Existing multimodal retrieval benchmarks largely emphasize semantic matching on daily-life images and offer limited diagnostics of professional knowledge and complex reasoning. To address this gap, we introduce ARK, a benchmark designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yijie Lin , Guofeng Ding , Haochen Zhou , Haobin Li , Mouxing Yang , Xi Peng

This paper introduces an approach for training o1-like RAG models that retrieve and reason over relevant information step by step before generating the final answer. Conventional RAG methods usually perform a single retrieval step before…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Liang Wang , Haonan Chen , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Zhicheng Dou , Furu Wei

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in jointly understanding text, images, and videos, often evaluated via Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, even state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alberto Compagnoni , Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Federico Cocchi , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara