Published onJuly 28, 2026Enhancing Language Models with RAG: Best Practices and Benchmarks (2020–2026)raglarge-language-modelsinformation-retrievalgraph-ragagentic-aillm-evaluationA research-driven history of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from 2020 to 2026, covering foundational architectures, adaptive and graph-based systems, evaluation benchmarks, security risks, and production best practices.