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Penghao Zhao1, 2, Hailin Zhang1, Qinhan Yu1, Zhengren Wang1, Yunteng Geng1, Fangcheng Fu3, Ling Yang1, Wentao Zhang1, Jie Jiang2, Bin Cui1
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Penghao Zhao1, 2, Hailin Zhang1, Qinhan Yu1, Zhengren Wang1, Yunteng Geng1, Fangcheng Fu3, Ling Yang1, Wentao Zhang1, Jie Jiang2, Bin Cui1
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Published: 2026-03-01 doi: 10.1007/s41019-025-00335-5
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Advancements in model algorithms, the growth of foundational models, and access to high-quality datasets have propelled the evolution of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). Despite its notable successes, AIGC still faces hurdles such as updating knowledge, handling long-tail data, mitigating data leakage, and managing high training and inference costs. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a paradigm to address such challenges. In particular, RAG introduces the information retrieval process, which enhances the generation process by retrieving relevant objects from available data stores, leading to higher accuracy and better robustness. In this paper, we comprehensively review existing efforts that integrate RAG techniques into AIGC scenarios. We first classify RAG foundations according to how the retriever augments the generator, distilling the fundamental abstractions of the augmentation methodologies for various retrievers and generators. This unified perspective encompasses all RAG scenarios, illuminating advancements and pivotal technologies that help with potential future progress. We also summarize additional enhancement methods for RAG, facilitating effective engineering and implementation of RAG systems. Then from another view, we survey practical applications of RAG across different modalities and tasks, offering valuable references for researchers and practitioners. Furthermore, we introduce the benchmarks for RAG, discuss the limitations of current RAG systems, and suggest potential directions for future research.

Retrieval-augmented generation  /  AI-generated content  /  Generative models  /  Information retrieval
Penghao Zhao, Hailin Zhang, Qinhan Yu, Zhengren Wang, Yunteng Geng, Fangcheng Fu, Ling Yang, Wentao Zhang, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey[J]. Data Science and Engineering, 2026 , 11 (1) : 1 -29 . DOI: 10.1007/s41019-025-00335-5
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23B2048; 62402011)
  • PKU-Tencent joint research Lab
  • High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University
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doi: 10.1007/s41019-025-00335-5
  • Receive Date:2025-11-09
  • Online Date:2026-08-06
  • Published:2026-03-01
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  • Received:2025-11-09
  • Revised:2025-11-29
  • Accepted:2025-12-02
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23B2048; 62402011)
PKU-Tencent joint research Lab
High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University
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    1Peking University, Beijing, China
    2Tencent, Shenzhen, China
    3Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Fangcheng Fu 
Wentao Zhang 
Bin Cui 
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