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Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Applications, Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities
Summary: Tutorial on graph-based RAG that surveys applications, challenges, and methods. Reframes RAG as a data-management pipeline—graph modeling/repair, index maintenance, and retrieval—and highlights multimodal extensions and open directions.
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Paper ID
h2d7b0c8e3e630386
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
4.9793485e-05
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11,029 | 25.85%
DOI
10.14778/3827998.3828147
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Authors
1.
Angela Bonifati
(Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University; French Institute for Advanced Study; National Centre for Scientific Research)
2.
Yixiang Fang
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3.
Sibo Wang
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4.
Yingli Zhou
(Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University; National Centre for Scientific Research)
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@article{bonifati_vldb26,
title = {{Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Applications, Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities}},
author = {Bonifati, Angela and Fang, Yixiang and Wang, Sibo and Zhou, Yingli},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '26},
volume = {19},
number = {12},
pages = {4900--4905},
doi = {10.14778/3827998.3828147},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3828147},
year = {2026}
}
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