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We study question answering in the domain of radio regulations, a legally sensitive and high-stakes area. We propose a telecom-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline and introduce, to our knowledge, the first multiple-choice…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zakaria El Kassimi , Fares Fourati , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This systematic review of the research literature on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) provides a focused analysis of the most highly cited studies published between 2020 and May 2025. A total of 128 articles met our inclusion criteria.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Andrew Brown , Muhammad Roman , Barry Devereux

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a paradigm that augments large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge to tackle knowledge-intensive question answering. While several benchmarks evaluate Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yin Wu , Quanyu Long , Jing Li , Jianfei Yu , Wenya Wang

Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems predominantly rely on semantic relevance as a proxy for utility. However, this assumption collapses in realistic decision-making scenarios where user queries are laden with cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyang Liu , Qiang Yan , Ziqiang Cui , Di Liang , Xi Wang , Wei Ye

The increasing use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in various applications necessitates stringent protocols to ensure RAG systems accuracy, safety, and alignment with user intentions. In this paper, we introduce VERA…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Tianyu Ding , Adi Banerjee , Laurent Mombaerts , Yunhong Li , Tarik Borogovac , Juan Pablo De la Cruz Weinstein

Existing document OCR largely targets plain text or Markdown, discarding the structural and executable properties that make LaTeX essential for scientific publishing. We study page-level reconstruction of scientific PDFs into compilable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chengye Wang , Lin Fu , Zexi Kuang , Yilun Zhao

Accuracy and safety are paramount in Offshore Wind (OSW) maintenance, yet conventional Large Language Models (LLMs) often fail when confronted with highly specialised or unexpected scenarios. We introduce RAGuard, an enhanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Connor Walker , Koorosh Aslansefat , Mohammad Naveed Akram , Yiannis Papadopoulos

Large language models achieve high task performance yet often hallucinate or rely on outdated knowledge. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) addresses these gaps by coupling generation with external search. We analyse how hyperparameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Adel Ammar , Anis Koubaa , Omer Nacar , Wadii Boulila

Existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face challenges in enterprise settings due to limited retrieval scope and data security risks. When relevant internal documents are unavailable, the system struggles to generate accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Grace Byun , Shinsun Lee , Nayoung Choi , Jinho D. Choi

This paper presents Loops On Retrieval Augmented Generation (LoRAG), a new framework designed to enhance the quality of retrieval-augmented text generation through the incorporation of an iterative loop mechanism. The architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ayush Thakur , Rashmi Vashisth

Text image super-resolution is a challenging yet open research problem in the computer vision community. In particular, low-resolution images hamper the performance of typical optical character recognition (OCR) systems. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Chao Dong , Ximei Zhu , Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Yu Qiao

Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or factoid-based. However, many real-world applications demand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Rohan Phanse , Yijie Zhou , Kejian Shi , Wencai Zhang , Yixin Liu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan

Organizations increasingly adopt Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance Large Language Models with enterprise-specific knowledge. However, current data quality (DQ) frameworks have been primarily developed for static datasets, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Leopold Müller , Joshua Holstein , Sarah Bause , Gerhard Satzger , Niklas Kühl

Document digitization is essential for the digital transformation of our societies, yet a crucial step in the process, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is still not perfect. Even commercial OCR systems can produce questionable output…

This report explores the latest advances in the field of digital document recognition. With the focus on printed document imagery, we discuss the major developments in optical character recognition (OCR) and document image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Eugene Borovikov

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves generation quality by incorporating evidence retrieved from large external corpora. However, most existing methods rely on statically selecting top-k passages based on individual relevance,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yi Jiang , Sendong Zhao , Jianbo Li , Bairui Hu , Yanrui Du , Haochun Wang , Bing Qin

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show great promise for complex document understanding, yet their development is critically hampered by inadequate evaluation. Current benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Wenxuan Shen , Mingjia Wang , Yaochen Wang , Dongping Chen , Junjie Yang , Yao Wan , Weiwei Lin

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a pivotal method for expanding the knowledge of large language models. To handle complex queries more effectively, researchers developed Adaptive-RAG (A-RAG) to enhance the generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jie Ou , Jinyu Guo , Shuaihong Jiang , Zhaokun Wang , Libo Qin , Shunyu Yao , Wenhong Tian

Automated code review comment generation (RCG) aims to assist developers by automatically producing natural language feedback for code changes. Existing approaches are primarily either generation-based, using pretrained language models, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Hyunsun Hong , Jongmoon Baik

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a framework in which a Generator, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), produces answers by retrieving documents from an external collection using a Retriever. In practice, Generators must integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Koki Itai , Shunichi Hasegawa , Yuta Yamamoto , Gouki Minegishi , Masaki Otsuki