When Harness Beats Scale, and When Reading Beats Both

arXiv:2609.34366 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/RaguTeam/RAGU

Terminology

• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Graph Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
• JSONSchemaBench: A Rigorous Benchmark of Structured Outputs for Language Models
• RAGU: A Multi-Step GraphRAG Engine with a Compact Domain-Adapted LLM
• GSM-SEM: Benchmark and Framework for Generating Semantically Variant Augmentations
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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