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# [SIGIR'2025 LiveRAG Challenge](https://liverag.tii.ae/index.php) Reports

## Organizers' report
[SIGIR 2025 – LiveRAG Challenge Report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04942)

## Oral presentations
|Team Name|Team members|Report|
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|RUC_DeepSearch|Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yuyao Zhang, Mengjie Deng, Yutao Zhu|[Leveraging LLM-Assisted Query Understanding for Live Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21384)|
|UDInfo|Damian Martinez, Catalina Riano, Hui Fang|[ClueRAG – Classify and Rewrite for Enhanced RAG](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17493)|
|ScaledRAG|Alireza Salemi, Mukta Maddipatla, Hamed Zamani|[CIIR@LiveRAG 2025: Optimizing Multi-Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation through Self-Training](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10844)|
|RAGtifier|William Xion, Hailay Teklehaymanot, Oleh Astappiev, Tim Cofala|[RAGtifier: Evaluating RAG Generation Approaches of State-of-the-Art RAG Systems for the SIGIR LiveRAG Competition](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14412)|
|RMIT-ADMS|Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Damiano Spina, Oleg Zendel|[GRAG: Generation-Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14516)|
|Ped100X|Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Natthapath Rungseesiripak, Peerawat Rojratchadakorn, Monthol Charattrakool, Natapong Nitarach|[DoTA-RAG: Dynamic of Thought Aggregation RAG](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12571)|
|HLTCOE|Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Orion Weller, Kevin Duh, Dawn Lawrie|[HLTCOE at LiveRAG: GPT-Researcher using ColBERT retrieval](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22356)|
|Magikarp|Tong Zhou|[Knowledge-Aware Diverse Reranking for Cross-Source Question Answering](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20476)|
|PRMAS-DRCA|Priyanshu Raj Mall, Aman Sinha, Dwaipayan Roy|[Team PRMAS-DRCA: SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2677.pdf)|

## Poster presentations
|Team Name|Team members|Report|
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|UIUC-RAGents|Eric Modesitt, Ke Yang, Chengxiang Zhai|[TinyUPR: Budget Constrained Query Likelihood Reranking for the SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2580.pdf)
|Ragmatazz|Matthias Krüger, David Fisher, Scott Stults|[Ragmatazz at SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2591.pdf)|
|BagBag|Shuailong Sang, Yourui Ye, Shimao Chu, Kun Zhang|[A multi-stage hybrid retrieval augment generation system](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2617.pdf)|
|UiS-IAI|Weronika Łajewska, Ivica Kostric, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz, Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog|[UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22210)|
|NoobRAG|A F M Mohimenul Joaa, Ramy Boulos, Himanshu Manoj Kaloni, Michael Färber|[NoobRAG: An Adaptive and Modular RAG System](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2648-1.pdf)|
|RAGentA|Ines Besrour, Jingbo He, Tobias Schreieder, Michael Färber|[RAGentA: Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Attributed Question Answering](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16988)|
|Starlight|To Eun Kim, Fernando Diaz|[LTRR: Learning To Rank Retrievers for LLMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13743)|
|emorag|Chase Fensore, Kaustubh Dhole, Joyce Ho, Eugene Agichtein|[Evaluating Hybrid Retrieval Augmented Generation using Dynamic Test Sets: LiveRAG Challenge](SIGIR_2025_LiveRAG-Workshop_2664.pdf)|
|TopClustRAG|Juli Bakagianni, John Pavlopoulos, Aristidis Likas|[TopClustRAG at SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15246)|
|Graph-Enhanced RAG|Zhili Shen, Chenxin Diao, Pascual Merita, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Jeff Pan|[Millions of GeAR-s: Extending GraphRAG to Millions of Documents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17399)|