@inproceedings{Cer2017SemEvalSTS,
  title     = {{SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity Multilingual and Crosslingual Focused Evaluation}},
  author    = {Cer, Daniel and Diab, Mona and Agirre, Eneko and Lopez-Gazpio, Inigo and Specia, Lucia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)},
  pages     = {1--14},
  year      = {2017},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/S17-2001},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/S17-2001/}
}

@misc{Moura_CrewAI_2024,
  author       = {Moura, Jo{\~a}o},
  title        = {{CrewAI: Framework for Orchestrating Role-Playing, Autonomous AI Agents}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI}
}

@inproceedings{ReimersGurevych2019SentenceBERT,
  title     = {{Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks}},
  author    = {Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)},
  year      = {2019},
  eprint      = {1908.10084},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084}
}

@misc{SignificantGravitas_AutoGPT_2023,
  author       = {{Significant Gravitas}},
  title        = {{AutoGPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment}},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT}
}

@article{bioengineering12080895,
  title   = {{Enhancing Clinical Decision Support with Adaptive Iterative Self-Query Retrieval for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models}},
  author  = {Prabha, Srinivasagam and Gomez-Cabello, Cesar A. and Haider, Syed Ali and Genovese, Ariana and Trabilsy, Maissa and Wood, Nadia G. and Bagaria, Sanjay and Tao, Cui and Forte, Antonio J.},
  journal = {Bioengineering},
  volume  = {12},
  number  = {8},
  pages   = {895},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.3390/bioengineering12080895},
  url     = {https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/8/895}
}

@misc{chang2023kldivergenceguidedtemperaturesampling,
  title         = {{KL-Divergence Guided Temperature Sampling}},
  author        = {Chang, Chung-Ching and Reitter, David and Aksitov, Renat and Sung, Yun-Hsuan},
  year          = {2023},
  eprint        = {2306.01286},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01286}
}

@misc{chase2023langchain,
  author       = {Chase, Harrison},
  title        = {{LangChain: Building Applications with LLMs through Composability}},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain}
}

@misc{dang2025multi,
  title         = {{Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration}},
  author        = {Dang, Yufan and Qian, Chen and Luo, Xueheng and Fan, Jingru and Xie, Zihao and Shi, Ruijie and Chen, Weize and Yang, Cheng and Che, Xiaoyin and Tian, Ye and Xiong, Xuantang and Han, Lei and Liu, Zhiyuan and Sun, Maosong},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2505.19591},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19591},
  note          = {NeurIPS 2025; Puppeteer orchestration paradigm}
}

@article{dietnerd2024,
  title   = {{DietNerd: A Nutrition Question-Answering System That Summarizes and Evaluates Peer-Reviewed Scientific Articles}},
  author  = {Wu, Shela and Yacub, Zubair and Shasha, Dennis},
  journal = {Applied Sciences},
  volume  = {14},
  number  = {19},
  pages   = {9021},
  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.3390/app14199021},
  url     = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/19/9021}
}

@misc{es2023ragas,
  title         = {{Ragas: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation}},
  author        = {Es, Shahul and James, Jithin and Espinosa-Anke, Luis and Schockaert, Steven},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2309.15217},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15217}
}

@misc{guu2020realm,
  title         = {{REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training}},
  author        = {Guu, Kelvin and Lee, Kenton and Tung, Zora and Pasupat, Panupong and Chang, Ming-Wei},
  year          = {2020},
  eprint        = {2002.08909},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08909}
}

@inproceedings{holtzman_neural_text_degeneration_2019,
  title         = {{The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration}},
  author        = {Holtzman, Ari and Buys, Jan and Du, Li and Forbes, Maxwell and Choi, Yejin},
  year          = {2020},
  eprint        = {1904.09751},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09751}
}

@article{hu2025agentic,
  title   = {{A Self-Correcting Agentic Graph {RAG} for Clinical Decision Support in Hepatology}},
  author  = {Hu, Yalan and Xuan, Wenjie and Zhou, Qingqing and Li, Zhi and Li, Ya and Hu, Jili and Fang, Fang},
  journal = {Frontiers in Medicine},
  volume  = {12},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.3389/fmed.2025.1716327},
  url     = {https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2025.1716327/full}
}

@misc{izacard2021leveraging,
  title         = {{Leveraging Passage Retrieval with Generative Models for Open Domain Question Answering}},
  author        = {Izacard, Gautier and Grave, Edouard},
  year          = {2021},
  eprint        = {2007.01282},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01282}
}

@article{ji_hallucination_nlg_2023,
  title   = {{Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation}},
  author  = {Ji, Ziwei and Lee, Nayeon and Frieske, Rita and Yu, Tiezheng and Su, Dan and Xu, Yan and Ishii, Etsuko and Bang, Ye Jin and Madotto, Andrea and Fung, Pascale},
  journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  volume  = {55},
  number  = {12},
  pages   = {1--38},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1145/3571730},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3571730}
}

@misc{kadavath_language_models_know_2022,
  title         = {{Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know}},
  author        = {Kadavath, Saurav and Conerly, Tom and Askell, Amanda and Henighan, Tom and Drain, Dawn and Perez, Ethan and Schiefer, Nicholas and Hatfield-Dodds, Zac and DasSarma, Nova and Tran-Johnson, Eli and others},
  year          = {2022},
  eprint        = {2207.05221},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221}
}

@misc{kadavath_language_models_mostly_know_2022,
  title         = {{Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know}},
  author        = {Kadavath, Saurav and Conerly, Tom and Askell, Amanda and Henighan, Tom and Drain, Dawn and Perez, Ethan and Schiefer, Nicholas and Hatfield-Dodds, Zac and DasSarma, Nova and Tran-Johnson, Eli and others},
  year          = {2022},
  eprint        = {2207.05221},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221}
}

@inproceedings{lewis2020retrieval,
  title         = {{Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive {NLP} Tasks}},
  author        = {Lewis, Patrick and Perez, Ethan and Piktus, Aleksandra and Petroni, Fabio and Karpukhin, Vladimir and Goyal, Naman and K{\"u}ttler, Heinrich and Lewis, Mike and Yih, Wen-tau and Rockt{\"a}schel, Sebastian and Riedel, Sebastian and Kiela, Douwe},
  year          = {2021},
  eprint        = {2005.11401},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401}
}

@misc{lin2022truthfulqameasuringmodelsmimic,
  title         = {{TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods}},
  author        = {Lin, Stephanie and Hilton, Jacob and Evans, Owain},
  year          = {2022},
  eprint        = {2109.07958},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07958}
}

@misc{liu_llamaindex_2022,
  author       = {Liu, Jerry},
  title        = {{LlamaIndex: A Data Framework for {LLM} Applications}},
  year         = {2022},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index},
  note         = {Formerly GPT Index}
}

@misc{llamaindex_workflows_2025,
  author       = {{LlamaIndex}},
  title        = {{Agentic Document Workflows: A Practical Guide}},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {Blog post},
  url          = {https://www.llamaindex.ai/blog/introducing-agentic-document-workflows},
  note         = {Agentic Document Workflows (ADW) reference architecture}
}

@misc{min2023factscore,
  title         = {{FActScore: Fine-grained Atomic Evaluation of Factual Precision in Long Form Text Generation}},
  author        = {Min, Sewon and Krishna, Kalpesh and Lyu, Xinxi and Lewis, Mike and Yih, Wen-tau and Koh, Pang Wei and Iyyer, Mohit and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Hajishirzi, Hannaneh},
  year          = {2023},
  eprint        = {2305.14251},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14251}
}

@misc{nguyen2025marag,
  title         = {{MA-RAG: Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Collaborative Chain-of-Thought Reasoning}},
  author        = {Nguyen, Thang and Chin, Peter and Tai, Yu-Wing},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2505.20096},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20096}
}

@misc{nguyen_minp_sampling_2025,
  title         = {{Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent {LLM} Outputs}},
  author        = {Nguyen, Minh Nhat and Baker, Andrew and Neo, Clement and Roush, Allen and Kirsch, Andreas and Shwartz-Ziv, Ravid},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2407.01082},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01082},
  note          = {ICLR 2025 Oral}
}

@book{nygard2018releaseit,
  author    = {Nygard, Michael T.},
  title     = {{Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software}},
  edition   = {2},
  publisher = {Pragmatic Bookshelf},
  year      = {2018},
  isbn      = {978-1680502398}
}

@misc{rag_orig,
  title         = {{Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive {NLP} Tasks}},
  author        = {Lewis, Patrick and Perez, Ethan and Piktus, Aleksandra and Petroni, Fabio and Karpukhin, Vladimir and Goyal, Naman and K{\"u}ttler, Heinrich and Lewis, Mike and Yih, Wen-tau and Rockt{\"a}schel, Sebastian and Riedel, Sebastian and Kiela, Douwe},
  year          = {2021},
  eprint        = {2005.11401},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401},
  note          = {Foundational RAG paper; alias of lewis2020retrieval}
}

@misc{rag_survey,
  title         = {{Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey}},
  author        = {Gao, Yunfan and Xiong, Yun and Gao, Xinyu and Jia, Kangxiang and Pan, Jinliu and Bi, Yuxi and Dai, Yi and Sun, Jiawei and Guo, Qianyu and Wang, Meng and Wang, Haofen},
  year          = {2024},
  eprint        = {2312.10997},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997}
}

@inproceedings{ravfogel_conformal_nucleus_sampling_2023,
  title     = {{Conformal Nucleus Sampling}},
  author    = {Ravfogel, Shauli and Goldberg, Yoav and Goldberger, Jacob},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023},
  pages     = {27--34},
  year      = {2023},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.3},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.3/}
}

@inproceedings{zhang2025osc,
  title     = {{OSC}: Cognitive Orchestration through Dynamic Knowledge Alignment in Multi-Agent {LLM} Collaboration},
  author    = {Zhang, Jusheng and Fan, Yijia and Cai, Kaitong and Sun, Xiaofei and Wang, Keze},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025},
  editor    = {Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet},
  year      = {2025},
  month     = nov,
  address   = {Suzhou, China},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {6320--6337},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.335},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.335/}
}

@misc{langchain_odr_2025,
  author       = {{LangChain}},
  title        = {{Open Deep Research}},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/langchain-ai/open_deep_research},
  note         = {LangGraph supervisor--researcher--writer--critic baseline}
}

@inproceedings{dong2025ragcritic,
  title     = {{RAG-Critic: Leveraging Automated Critic-Guided Agentic Workflow for Retrieval Augmented Generation}},
  author    = {Dong, Guanting and Jin, Jiajie and Li, Xiaoxi and Zhu, Yutao and Dou, Zhicheng and Wen, Ji-Rong},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  pages     = {3551--3578},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.179},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.179/}
}

@misc{greyling2024llamaindex,
  author       = {Greyling, Cobus},
  title        = {{Multi-Document Agentic {RAG} with LlamaIndex}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {GitHub notebook},
  url          = {https://github.com/cobusgreyling/LlamaIndex/blob/main/Agentic_RAG_Multi_Document_Agents-v1.ipynb},
  note         = {LlamaIndex multi-document agent architecture reference}
}

@article{jiang2025argus,
  title   = {{ARGUS: Retrieval-Augmented {QA} System for Government Services}},
  author  = {Jiang, Song and Xie, Xiaofeng and Tang, Rongnian and Wang, Xuanqi and Sun, Kaihao and Li, Guanghan and Xu, Zhenkai and Xue, Peng and Li, Ziling and Fu, Xuedong},
  journal = {Electronics},
  volume  = {14},
  number  = {12},
  pages   = {2445},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.3390/electronics14122445},
  url     = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/12/2445}
}

@misc{gao2024rag,
  title         = {{Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey}},
  author        = {Gao, Yunfan and Xiong, Yun and Gao, Xinyu and Jia, Kangxiang and Pan, Jinliu and Bi, Yuxi and Dai, Yi and Sun, Jiawei and Guo, Qianyu and Wang, Meng and Wang, Haofen},
  year          = {2024},
  eprint        = {2312.10997},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997}
}

@misc{llamaindex2023,
  author       = {Liu, Jerry},
  title        = {{LlamaIndex: A Data Framework for {LLM} Applications}},
  year         = {2022},
  howpublished = {Software},
  url          = {https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index},
  note         = {Alias of liu_llamaindex_2022}
}

@misc{li2025lexrag,
  title         = {{LexRAG: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Multi-Turn Legal Consultation Conversation}},
  author        = {Li, Haitao and Chen, Yifan and Hu, Yiran and Ai, Qingyao and Chen, Junjie and Yang, Xiaoyu and Yang, Jianhui and Wu, Yueyue and Liu, Zeyang and Liu, Yiqun},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2502.20640},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20640}
}

@misc{li2025medrgag,
  title         = {{MedRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph-Elicited Reasoning for Healthcare Copilot}},
  author        = {Zhao, Xuejiao and Liu, Siyan and Yang, Su-Yin and Miao, Chunyan},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2502.04413},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04413}
}

@misc{yang2025dsrag,
  title         = {{DSRAG: A Domain-Specific Retrieval Framework Based on Document-derived Multimodal Knowledge Graph}},
  author        = {Yang, Mengzheng and Ren, Yanfei and Opoku, David Osei and Li, Ruochang and Ren, Peng and Xing, Chunxiao},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2509.10467},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.IR},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10467}
}

@book{shasha2010statistics,
  author    = {Shasha, Dennis and Wilson, Michael},
  title     = {{Statistics is Easy!}},
  publisher = {Morgan and Claypool},
  year      = {2010},
  note      = {Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics}
}

@misc{wang_self_consistency_cot_2023,
  title         = {{Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models}},
  author        = {Wang, Xuezhi and Wei, Jason and Schuurmans, Dale and Le, Quoc and Chi, Ed and Narang, Sharan and Chowdhery, Aakanksha and Zhou, Denny},
  year          = {2023},
  eprint        = {2203.11171},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171}
}

@article{wiher2022decodingstrategiesneuraltext,
  title   = {{On Decoding Strategies for Neural Text Generators}},
  author  = {Wiher, Gian and Meister, Clara and Cotterell, Ryan},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  volume  = {10},
  pages   = {997--1012},
  year    = {2022},
  doi     = {10.1162/tacl_a_00502},
  url     = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.58/}
}

@article{wiher_decoding_strategies_2022,
  title   = {{On Decoding Strategies for Neural Text Generators}},
  author  = {Wiher, Gian and Meister, Clara and Cotterell, Ryan},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  volume  = {10},
  pages   = {997--1012},
  year    = {2022},
  doi     = {10.1162/tacl_a_00502},
  url     = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.58/}
}
