Equation 30 · Part 1 · Naive, Graph, and Agentic: A Systems Comparison of RAG Architectures
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…how much autonomy each has, and how the underlying knowledge is represented and accessed [ 13 ] . The engineering consequence of policy-controlled retrieval is the one this family cannot avoid: the round count k from the iterative family’s cost model is, for an agentic system, a random variable whose distribution depends on the policy and the specific input, not a number fixed in advance by the architecture or bounded by a benchmark-tuned heuristic. Absent an operator-imposed budget — a maximum number of…
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