Three independent research sweeps on the state of the art in agentic retrieval, compiled 2026-08-08 by LLM research agents from primary sources only (first-party engineering blogs, arXiv/ACL/ICLR/SIGIR papers, official model cards and leaderboards). Anonymous blog posts and SEO content were explicitly rejected; each report carries its own rejection log and a list of claims that could NOT be verified.
| File | Scope |
|---|---|
| industry-evidence-2026.md | What Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, LlamaIndex, LangChain, Weaviate, Qdrant, Vespa, Pinecone, Elastic, Exa, Perplexity, Glean et al. have published about production agentic retrieval — architectures, numbers, and where vendors directly contradict each other |
| academic-evidence-2026.md | The 2025–26 literature: RL-trained search agents, reasoning-aware retrieval (BRIGHT lineage), late interaction, hybrid fusion, late chunking, context compression, verification/attribution, GraphRAG, memory — with the controlled replications that deflated the 2024 headline claims |
| component-map-2026.md | Component-by-component SOTA map for local/self-hosted stacks: parsing, chunking, embeddings, sparse+fusion, rerankers, query planning, routing, loop patterns, verification, compression, memory, evaluation — each claim graded established / emerging / contested |
- These are evidence documents, not descriptions of localGPT. Nothing in
them implies a feature exists in this repo. What localGPT actually does is
documented in the rest of
Documentation/. - Every claim carries its source and date. Claims graded established are peer-reviewed or independently replicated; vendor numbers are self-reported and directionally credible at best.
- The actionable distillation lives in ../research_roadmap.md, which maps this evidence to concrete, staged changes with acceptance criteria.
Provenance: generated with web access on 2026-08-08; model knowledge cutoffs predate several cited releases, so everything recent is web-sourced. Each report's own "could not verify / do not cite" appendix applies.