What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

RAG is a pattern where you retrieve relevant documents from a knowledge base and include them in the LLM's context. This grounds responses in your data, reduces hallucinations, and keeps answers current without retraining the model.

When should I use RAG vs fine-tuning?

Use RAG when: your data changes frequently, you need source attribution, or you have a large knowledge base. Use fine-tuning when: you need to change the model's behavior/style, your task is specialized, or you want lower latency. Many production systems use both.

What are the best tools for building RAG?

Popular RAG stacks: LangChain + Pinecone/Chroma (most common), LlamaIndex (best for complex data), Haystack (production-focused). For embeddings: OpenAI, Cohere, or open-source models. For vector stores: Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, or pgvector.

How do I improve RAG retrieval quality?

Key techniques: better chunking (semantic vs fixed-size), hybrid search (vector + keyword), reranking retrieved results, query expansion, metadata filtering, and fine-tuned embedding models. Start simple and add complexity based on evaluation results.

What is the best chunk size for RAG?

Common range: 200-1000 tokens with 10-20% overlap. Smaller chunks improve precision but may lose context. Larger chunks preserve context but reduce relevance. Test different sizes with your data and use case. Semantic chunking often outperforms fixed-size.

How do I evaluate RAG performance?

Key metrics: retrieval precision/recall (are relevant docs retrieved?), answer correctness, faithfulness (is answer grounded in retrieved docs?), and latency. Use frameworks like RAGAS or custom evaluation sets with known good answers.

What embedding model should I use for RAG?

Popular choices: OpenAI text-embedding-3-small (good balance), Cohere embed-v3 (multilingual), BGE/E5 (open source). Match embedding dimension to your vector store. For domain-specific data, consider fine-tuning embeddings on your corpus.

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Alibaba's VimRAG uses memory graphs to supercharge multimodal AI retrieval

marktechpost.com Apr 10, 2026

7.80/10 Medium Multimodal RAG / Agentic AI Research

🔧 VimRAG, Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct, Qwen3VL-30B-A3B-Instruct, GVE-7B, Alibaba Group

GuarantRAG framework cuts AI hallucinations by 16% using joint decoding

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🔧 GuarantRAG

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arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Large Language Models Survey

🔧 DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3, Qwen 3.5, GLM-5, Kimi K2.5

HingeMem cuts AI dialogue memory costs 68% with smarter boundary-based retrieval

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low Long-Term Memory for Dialogue Systems

🔧 HingeMem, HippoRAG2, Qwen3-0.6B, Qwen-Flash

New open framework formally defines and measures AI memory continuity across time

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI Evaluation Frameworks

🔧 ATANT (Automated Test for Acceptance of Narrative Truth), RAG pipelines, vector databases, GitHub, Kenotic Labs

Systematic RAG study hits 60% accuracy on medical board exams using consumer GPU

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Medical AI

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), cross-encoder reranker, dense retrieval, embedding models

MAT-Cell framework uses multi-agent AI to revolutionize single-cell biological annotation

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI for Bioinformatics / Single-Cell Genomics

🔧 MAT-Cell, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

G-Defense uses graph-based LLM reasoning to detect and explain fake news

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low Fake News Detection / Explainable AI

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

RAGRoute cuts RAG communication overhead 80% with smart neural routing

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Low Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🔧 RAGRoute

AI-powered peer review risks killing scientific creativity through algorithmic conformity bias

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

6.50/10 Medium AI in Scientific Peer Review / AI-Generated Text Detection

🔧 XGBoost, Random Forest, LightGBM, RAG-XAI, SHAP

GraphRAG + LLMs automate plasma simulation parameters, cutting hallucinations 25%

arxiv.org Apr 10, 2026

5.50/10 Low GraphRAG / Scientific AI

🔧 Plasma GraphRAG, GraphRAG, LLMs (Large Language Models)

Andrej Karpathy's no-code GitHub Gist sparks debate on RAG's future

pub.towardsai.net Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Medium LLM Architecture / RAG Alternatives

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), GitHub

RAG gives AI memory; MCP gives it hands — use both for production agents

pub.towardsai.net Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Medium AI Agent Architecture

🔧 RAG, MCP, FAISS, LangChain, OpenAI API, HuggingFace all-MiniLM-L6-v2, sentence-transformers, python-dotenv

SEO is dead — AI visibility optimization is the new brand survival strategy

gradientflow.com Apr 8, 2026

7.80/10 High Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

🔧 robots.txt crawler configuration, schema markup, RAG pipelines, Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenAI, Google

ResearchEVO automates end-to-end scientific discovery and paper writing using LLMs

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

7.80/10 Medium Automated Scientific Discovery

🔧 ResearchEVO, LLM-guided bi-dimensional co-evolution, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Google

New graph RAG framework achieves 43x speedup for multimodal AI reasoning

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🔧 MG2-RAG

New benchmark exposes how LLMs fail to keep up with evolving real-world knowledge

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

7.20/10 Medium LLM Knowledge Adaptation

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Chronos

AI model achieves 89% accuracy automating clinical trial patient screening

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Clinical NLP / LLM for Healthcare

🔧 MedGemma, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), NER (Named Entity Recognition), Google

PRISM-MCTS cuts AI reasoning search costs in half using shared memory

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI Reasoning / Test-Time Compute

🔧 PRISM-MCTS, MCTS-RAG, Search-o1, OpenAI o1, OpenAI

Data prep quality, not AI model choice, dominates RAG system accuracy

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Medium RAG / Document Preprocessing

🔧 Docling, MinerU, Marker, DeepSeek OCR, PDFLoader, GraphRAG, DeepSeek

Multi-agent LLM system achieves 89% F1 detecting IoT network intrusions with self-improving rules

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Medium AI for Cybersecurity / IoT Intrusion Detection

🔧 FAISS, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), LLMs (Large Language Models)

New CoT2Edit framework teaches LLMs to reason over updated knowledge dynamically

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Low Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models

🔧 CoT2Edit, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization), SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning), GitHub

New AI diagnostic framework cuts IT support turns in half with 78.7% success

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Medium Diagnostic Conversational AI / Enterprise IT Support Automation

🔧 DQA, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

MIRAGE framework solves AI's multi-instance image editing failures without retraining

arxiv.org Apr 8, 2026

6.50/10 Low Computer Vision / Image Editing

🔧 FLUX.2, Qwen-Image-Edit, MIRAGE, MIRA-Bench, RefEdit-Bench, GitHub

Your AI agents fail not from bad specs but from missing organizational context

pub.towardsai.net Apr 7, 2026

7.80/10 Medium AI-Assisted Software Development / Organizational Knowledge Management

🔧 Claude Code, MCP server, Redis, vector database, RAG, Confluence, Jira, GitHub

27 critical questions every developer must ask before choosing an LLM

infoworld.com Apr 6, 2026

6.50/10 Medium LLM Evaluation & Selection

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), PagedAttention, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic

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pub.towardsai.net Apr 6, 2026

7.50/10 Medium RAG System Architecture

🔧 Redis, KEDA, OpenTelemetry, RAGAS, Qdrant, Prometheus, Grafana, OPA (Open Policy Agent)

New LogicPoison attack silently corrupts AI knowledge graphs by breaking logical connections

arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

7.20/10 Medium AI Security / Adversarial Attacks on GraphRAG

🔧 GraphRAG, LogicPoison

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arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI Benchmarking / Health AI Agents

🔧 LLM-based planning pipeline, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), DB-native agents

AI agent automates cinematic video color grading with human-expert quality results

arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

6.50/10 Low Agentic AI Systems / Video Post-Production Automation

🔧 LumiVideo, LumiGrade, ASC-CDL, 3D LUT, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Tree of Thoughts (ToT)

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arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

6.50/10 Low Industrial Anomaly Detection with Multimodal LLMs

🔧 ADSeeker, Q2K RAG, SEEK-M&V, MulA

Neuro-symbolic RAG architecture eliminates AI hallucinations in cultural heritage storytelling

arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

5.50/10 Low Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) / Knowledge Graphs

🔧 Knowledge Graphs, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), KG-RAG, Hybrid-RAG, Graph-RAG, Music Meta Ontology

RAVN framework makes robots navigate reliably toward sounds in noisy environments

arxiv.org Apr 6, 2026

5.50/10 Low Audio-Visual Navigation / Multimodal Sensor Fusion

🔧 RAVN, Acoustic Geometry Reasoner (AGR), Reliability-Aware Geometric Modulation (RAGM), SoundSpaces, arXiv

12 must-know Claude Code features that supercharge your engineering workflow

blog.bytebytego.com Apr 4, 2026

6.50/10 Medium AI Developer Tools

🔧 Claude Code, Claude, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agentic RAG, Vector Search, Cloud SIEM, Datadog, Amazon

Student wellness app builds ethical RAG system from 500+ academic papers

reddit.com Apr 4, 2026

4.50/10 Low RAG System Development

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), FAISS, ChromaDB, Pinecone, Milvus, Local Differential Privacy, OCR, SciELO

Decades-old human observation techniques unlock the real path to autonomous AI agents

pub.towardsai.net Apr 3, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Autonomous AI Agent Architecture

🔧 RAG, LLM-as-judge, evaluator-optimizer loops, state checkpoints, prompt chaining, Medium, YouTube, Rishon

New technique detects AI agent collusion by analyzing internal neural activations across groups

lesswrong.com Apr 3, 2026

7.80/10 Medium AI Safety & Multi-Agent Interpretability

🔧 NARCBench, linear probes, PCA, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), arXiv, HuggingFace, GitHub

De Jure automates regulatory rule extraction from legal documents using iterative LLM refinement

arxiv.org Apr 3, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Regulatory NLP / LLM Self-Refinement

🔧 De Jure, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Two-stage hybrid RAG pipeline crushes single-stage retrieval for financial documents

arxiv.org Apr 3, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🔧 BM25, HyDE, Corrective RAG

UltRAG lets LLMs query billion-scale knowledge graphs without retraining

arxiv.org Apr 1, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Knowledge Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation

🔧 ULTRAG, Wikidata

CLAUSE framework makes AI knowledge graph reasoning faster, cheaper, and more accurate

arxiv.org Apr 1, 2026

6.50/10 Low Knowledge Graph Reasoning / Retrieval-Augmented Generation

🔧 CLAUSE, GraphRAG, LC-MAPPO

AI teaching assistant scales coding education across 35 African countries with human oversight

arxiv.org Apr 1, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI-Assisted Education

🔧 Kwame 2.0, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), SuaCode

New calibration method boosts multi-hop AI retrieval accuracy by normalizing mixed scores

arxiv.org Apr 1, 2026

4.50/10 Low Retrieval-Augmented Generation / Multi-Hop Question Answering

🔧 PhaseGraph, HippoRAG2

New AI framework hits 87.1% autonomous code bug resolution with zero human touch

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

7.80/10 Medium Automated Program Repair

🔧 AIR (Autonomous Issue Resolver), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), SWE-Verified benchmark

Courtroom-style AI debate framework boosts fact-checking accuracy by 10 points

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Multi-Agent AI / Fact Verification

🔧 PROClaim, Progressive RAG (P-RAG), GitHub

Hybrid retrieval architecture eliminates RAG failures in financial document QA

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

7.20/10 Medium Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Architecture

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Semantic File Routing (SFR), Hybrid Document-Routed Retrieval (HDRR), Chunk-Based Retrieval (CBR)

VOTE-RAG uses ensemble voting to eliminate compounded hallucinations in RAG systems

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

6.50/10 Medium RAG Hallucination Mitigation

🔧 VOTE-RAG

GAAMA graph memory system beats RAG by 4% on multi-session AI agents

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI Agent Memory Architecture

🔧 GAAMA, HippoRAG, A-Mem, Nemori, Personalized PageRank, arXiv

New benchmark exposes critical gaps in AI's ability to fully read research papers

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

6.50/10 Low AI Benchmarking / Academic Paper Reasoning

🔧 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), arXiv

M-RAG ditches text chunks for structured metadata, making AI retrieval faster and smarter

arxiv.org Mar 31, 2026

6.50/10 Low Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🔧 M-RAG, LongBench

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