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Agentic RAG(AgRAG)
Autonomous retrieval-augmented generation systems with self-directed planning, retrieval, and reasoning capabilities
In 30 seconds
- What
- Agent autonomously plans retrieval steps, refines queries based on results, and reasons across multiple documents without human intervention between searches.
- When to use
- Complex research questions requiring multi-domain knowledge, iterative refinement, or reasoning chains that span many documents.
- Watch out
- Agents can loop indefinitely chasing marginal improvements or retrieve irrelevant documents when query refinement goes off-track.
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Agentic RAG: Overview
Autonomous retrieval-augmented generation systems with self-directed planning, retrieval, and reasoning capabilities
- Self-directed retrieval planning
- Multi-hop reasoning capabilities
- Autonomous query refinement
- Dynamic retrieval strategies
- Self-reflective generation
- Adaptive search optimization
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References
The papers, specifications, and repositories this pattern is based on.
- ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models (Yao et al., 2022)arXiv:2210.03629
- Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (Schick et al., 2023)arXiv:2302.04761
- HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face (Shen et al., 2023)arXiv:2303.17580
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (Lewis et al., 2020)arXiv:2005.11401
- AutoGPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
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