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RAG Retrieval alternatives for AI agents.

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RAG Retrieval

Unify Efficient Fine-tuning of RAG Retrieval, including Embedding, ColBERT, ReRanker.

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#1

Local RAG

Similarity 147Trust 87Excellent 86

Ingest files for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), all without 3rd parties or sensitive data leaving your network.

746 starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add jonfairbanks/local-rag
#2

HiRAG

Similarity 147Trust 88Excellent 85

[EMNLP'25 findings] This is the official repo for the paper, HiRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Knowledge.

547 starsJun 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add hhy-huang/HiRAG
#3

Omnibox

Similarity 144Trust 92Excellent 100

Collect, organize, use, and share, all in OmniBox.

1.4K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add import-ai/omnibox
#4

Llm Paper Daily

Similarity 143Trust 89Excellent 97

Daily updated LLM papers. 每日更新 LLM 相关的论文,欢迎订阅 👏 喜欢的话动动你的小手 🌟 一个

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add xianshang33/llm-paper-daily
#5

WikiChat

Similarity 143Trust 91Excellent 93

WikiChat is an improved RAG. It stops the hallucination of large language models by retrieving data from a corpus.

1.6K starsJan 31, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add stanford-oval/WikiChat
#6

FlagEmbedding

Similarity 142Trust 94Excellent 100

Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs

12K starsApr 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
#7

Youtu Graphrag

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 87

[ICLR 2026] Youtu-GraphRAG: Vertically Unified Agents for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Complex Reasoning

1.2K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add TencentCloudADP/youtu-graphrag
#8

TrustRAG

Similarity 140Trust 85Excellent 87

TrustRAG:The RAG Framework within Reliable input,Trusted output

1.3K starsJan 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add gomate-community/TrustRAG
#9

RAG

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 85

This NVIDIA RAG blueprint serves as a reference solution for a foundational Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.

659 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/rag
#10

ModernBERT

Similarity 137Trust 89Excellent 94

Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling

1.7K starsMar 1, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add AnswerDotAI/ModernBERT
#11

Examples

Similarity 133Trust 93Excellent 100

Jupyter Notebooks to help you get hands-on with Pinecone vector databases

3.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add pinecone-io/examples
#12

TheoremExplainAgent

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 85

Official Repo for "TheoremExplainAgent: Towards Video-based Multimodal Explanations for LLM Theorem Understanding" [ACL 2025 oral]

1.5K starsJul 27, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add TIGER-AI-Lab/TheoremExplainAgent
#13

Byaldi

Similarity 132Trust 80Promising 56

Use late-interaction multi-modal models such as ColPali in just a few lines of code.

850 starsJan 28, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add AnswerDotAI/byaldi
#14

Model2vec

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

Fast State-of-the-Art Static Embeddings

2.1K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add MinishLab/model2vec
#15

RAGxplorer

Similarity 131Trust 84Strong 71

Open-source tool to visualise your RAG 🔮

1.2K starsJan 3, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookRAG
$ npx skills add gabrielchua/RAGxplorer
#16

RAG Fusion

Similarity 130Trust 86Strong 81

RAG-Fusion: multi-query generation + Reciprocal Rank Fusion for better retrieval-augmented generation. Includes evaluation harness with NFCorpus/BEIR.

941 starsApr 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add Raudaschl/rag-fusion

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