Retrieval-augmented generation

GARAG

Superseded baseline#132 of 1,179 most-superseded

Superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

1 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites GARAG as a baseline.

its scope is limited to plain text using only synthetic data, overlooking the variety of OCR noise encountered in real-world RAG applications.
OCR Hinders RAG: Evaluating the Cascading Impact of OCR on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Beaten on benchmarks

Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating GARAG. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.