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Equation 31 · Part 1 · Naive, Graph, and Agentic: A Systems Comparison of RAG Architectures

Symbol k

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Collect the five families’ engineering shape in one place, on the axes that generalise across them rather than the accuracy numbers that do not. A single latency model makes the difference between the first three rows and the last two concrete. Writing LencL_{\text{enc}} for query encoding, and Lretrieve(i)L_{\text{retrieve}}^{(i)} and LLLM(i)L_{\text{LLM}}^{(i)} for the retrieval and generation cost of round i ,

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