RAG+: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Application-Aware Reasoning (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yu Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Zhihu Wang, Ming Fan, Xicheng Zhang, Yubo Zhang, Zhengfan Wang, Heyuan Huang, Ting Liu
| Challenge: | Existing RAG paradigms often overlook the cognitive step of applying knowledge, leaving a gap between retrieved facts and task-specific reasoning. |
| Approach: | They introduce a module extension that integrates application-aware reasoning into the RAG pipeline. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that RAG+ outperforms standard RAG variants and achieves gains of 3–5% in complex scenarios. |
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