Less LLM, More Documents: Searching for Improved RAG.

@inproceedings{ning-2026-less, author = {Jingjie Ning and Yibo Kong and Yunfan Long and Jamie Callan}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Less LLM, More Documents: Searching for Improved RAG}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part I}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16483}, pages = {598--613}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_38}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_38} }