Graph EngineeringXiang, Wu et al. (Hong Kong Polytechnic University and others)

Xiang, Wu et al. publish When to use Graphs in RAG and release GraphRAG-Bench

Published the paper When to use Graphs in RAG and released GraphRAG-Bench — systematically identified the conditions under which GraphRAG falls behind vanilla RAG on many real tasks

Why it matters

The turning point into a phase of testing with benchmarks when graphs actually help — the methodological forerunner of the 2026 skepticism

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05690

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