RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextPietro Ferrazzi et al.

Is Agentic RAG worth it?

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Published "Is Agentic RAG worth it?" — compares enhanced RAG and agentic RAG across many scenarios

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Empirical evidence that agentic RAG is not always better. A disconfirming result that grounds design choices

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07711

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