Better Together: Complementary Query Rewriting Under a Strong RAG Baseline

arXiv:2609.05637 · cs.CL, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-09-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-09-04

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 10 pages. Accepted at EMNLP 2026 (Industry Track)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 1× in this paper
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes

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