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RAG-Anything: All-in-One RAG Framework

arXiv 2510.12323 ↗First posted 14 Oct 2025cs.AIcited by 20

On the map: Retrieval-augmented generation → Multimodal RAG

Abstract (arXiv)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for expanding Large Language Models beyond their static training limitations. However, a critical misalignment exists between current RAG capabilities and real-world information environments. Modern knowledge repositories are inherently multimodal, containing rich combinations of textual content, visual elements, structured tables, and mathematical expressions. Yet existing RAG frameworks are limited to textual content, creating fundamental gaps when processing multimodal documents. We present RAG-Anything, a unified framework that enables comprehensive knowledge retrieval across all modalities. Our approach reconceptualizes multimodal content as interconnected knowledge entities rather than isolated data types. The framework introduces dual-graph construction to capture both cross-modal relationships and textual semantics within a unified representation. We develop cross-modal hybrid retrieval that combines structural knowledge navigation with semantic matching. This enables effective reasoning over heterogeneous content where relevant evidence spans multiple modalities. RAG-Anything demonstrates superior performance on challenging multimodal benchmarks, achieving significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Performance gains become particularly pronounced on long documents where traditional approaches fail. Our framework establishes a new paradigm for multimodal knowledge access, eliminating the architectural fragmentation that constrains current systems. Our framework is open-sourced at: https://github.com/HKUDS/RAG-Anything.

Key facts. Cited by 20 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal RAG, one of 15 directions in Retrieval-augmented generation. Builds on 15 of its 17 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 Oct 2025.

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  1. 2025Ask in Any Modality: A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation12 Feb
  2. 2025VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Extreme Long-Context Videos3 Feb
  3. 2024VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents14 Oct

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  1. 2024From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarizationcited by 1,453
  2. 2024RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrievalcited by 532
  3. 2024LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 315
  4. 2024MinerU: An Open-Source Solution for Precise Document Content Extractioncited by 267
  5. 2024MMLongBench-Doc: Benchmarking Long-context Document Understanding with Visualizationscited by 183
  6. 2024GNN-RAG: Graph Neural Retrieval for Large Language Model Reasoningcited by 128
  7. 2025A Survey of Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Customized Large Language Modelscited by 88
  8. 2023MM-VID: Advancing Video Understanding with GPT-4V(ision)cited by 83
  9. 2024DOCBENCH: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Document Reading Systemscited by 37
  10. 2025ArchRAG: Attributed Community-based Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 28
  11. 2025Graphs Meet AI Agents: Taxonomy, Progress, and Future Opportunitiescited by 23
  12. 2025MMGraphRAG: Bridging Vision and Language with Interpretable Multimodal Knowledge Graphscited by 16

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  1. 2026MinerU2.5-Pro: Pushing the Limits of Data-Centric Document Parsing at Scalecited by 27
  2. 2026DocDancer: Towards Agentic Document-Grounded Information Seekingcited by 12
  3. 2026RaguTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Meno and Friends in a Judge-Orchestrated LLM Ensemble for Faithful Multi-Turn Response Generationcited by 3
  4. 2026DeepTutor: Towards Agentic Personalized Tutoringcited by 2
  5. 2026EvoGraph-R1: Self-Evolving Multimodal Knowledge Hypergraphs for Agentic Retrievalcited by 2
  6. 2026G2-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QAcited by 1
  7. 2026HippoCamp: Benchmarking Contextual Agents on Personal Computerscited by 1
  8. 2026FLOWREADER: Min-Cost Flow Optimization for Multi-Modal Long Document Q&Acited by 1
  9. 2026MemVenom: Triggered Poisoning of Multimodal Memories in Web Agentscited by 1
  10. 2026Multi-Granularity Context-Enhanced RAG over Multimodal Knowledge Graphscited by 1
  11. 2026AutothinkRAG: Complexity-Aware Control of Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Image-Text Interactioncited by 0
  12. 2026FT-RAG: A Fine-grained Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Complex Table Reasoningcited by 0
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  1. 2026Format-Constraint Coupling in Knowledge Graph Construction from Statistical Tablescited by 0
  2. 2026ChartWalker: Benchmarking the Cross-Chart RAG Task with Hierarchical Knowledge Graphscited by 0
  3. 2026Multimodal Graph RAG for Long-range Visually Rich Document Understandingcited by 0
  4. 2026TAP-RAG: Task-Aware Policy Control for Long-Document Multimodal Question Answeringcited by 0
  5. 2026DeCoRAG: Cognitive Decoupling and Semantic-Aware Cropping for Complex Document Understandingcited by 0
  6. 2026TeleOCR: Navigating Document Parsing Across Digital and Camera-Captured Documentscited by 0
  7. 2026TopoGraphRAG-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal GraphRAG on Layout-Grounded Evidence Reasoningcited by 0
  8. 2026MMKG-R1: Constructing Multimodal Knowledge Graphs via Reinforcement Learningcited by 0

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