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In-depth Analysis of Graph-based RAG in a Unified Framework

Summary: Unifies graph-based RAG approaches into a single framework and systematically benchmarks representative methods under identical settings across specific and abstract QA tasks. Finds hybrid variants that outperform prior SOTA on subsets and extracts empirical insights and future directions for graph-augmented LLMs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h57f95fbd25d099ee
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
7.2783993e-05
Overall Rank
3,466 | 76.70%
DOI
10.14778/3773731.3773738

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zhou_vldb25,
        title = {{In-depth Analysis of Graph-based RAG in a Unified Framework}},
        author = {Zhou, Yingli and Su, Yaodong and Sun, Youran and Wang, Shu and Wang, Taotao and He, Runyuan and Zhang, Yongwei and Liang, Sicong and Liu, Xilin and Ma, Yuchi and Fang, Yixiang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {13},
        pages = {5623--5637},
        doi = {10.14778/3773731.3773738},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3773731.3773738},
        year = {2025}
}

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10,417 Balancing Global and Local: Representative Sampling for Large-Scale Vector Data 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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10,466 HAMMER: An Automatic RAG Tuning System via Hierarchical Memory-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,502 Skyline Retrieval meets Set-Cover Chunk Merging: A Cost-Effective RAG-Sketch for Long-Context LLM QA 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,781 QA-GraphRAG: Query-Adaptive Plug-and-Play Retrieval Integration for Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,791 BookRAG: A Hierarchical Structure-aware Index-based Approach for Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Complex Documents 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,940 Bridging NL2SQL for CAN Signal Analytics at NIO: From Externalized Schemas to CTE Pipelines 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,963 GraphContainer: A Unified Platform for Comparing and Debugging Graph RAG Methods 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,029 Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Applications, Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,073 Revisiting Task-Oriented Dataset Search in the Era of Large Language Models: Challenges, Benchmark, and Solution 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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1,658 D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 9.9642078e-05
2,039 LLM-R^2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency 2025 VLDB 9.1493268e-05
2,231 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.7982985e-05
2,341 The Design of an LLM-powered Unstructured Analytics System 2025 CIDR 8.6066183e-05
2,348 The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready? 2024 VLDB 8.6009821e-05
2,638 Cache-Craft: Managing Chunk-Caches for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2025 SIGMOD 8.1839298e-05
3,169 Panda: Performance Debugging for Databases using LLM Agents 2024 CIDR 7.5696238e-05
3,489 Combining Small Language Models and Large Language Models for Zero-Shot NL2SQL 2024 VLDB 7.2627807e-05
3,973 RetClean: Retrieval-Based Data Cleaning Using LLMs and Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 6.8876964e-05
4,114 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.7971182e-05
4,385 R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System 2025 VLDB 6.6235293e-05
5,848 HAIPipe: Combining Human-generated and Machine-generated Pipelines for Data Preparation 2023 SIGMOD 5.9720806e-05
6,895 Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 VLDB 5.6536466e-05
6,945 PalimpChat: Declarative and Interactive AI analytics 2025 SIGMOD 5.6378669e-05
7,812 Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets using Contrastive Learning for Table Representations 2024 SIGMOD 5.4486106e-05
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