SIGIR'2025 LiveRAG Challenge

Oral presentations

Team Name	Team members	Report
RUC_DeepSearch	Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yuyao Zhang, Mengjie Deng, Yutao Zhu	Leveraging LLM-Assisted Query Understanding for Live Retrieval-Augmented Generation
UDInfo	Damian Martinez, Catalina Riano, Hui Fang	ClueRAG – Classify and Rewrite for Enhanced RAG
ScaledRAG	Alireza Salemi, Mukta Maddipatla, Hamed Zamani	CIIR@LiveRAG 2025: Optimizing Multi-Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation through Self-Training
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
RMIT-ADMS	Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Damiano Spina, Oleg Zendel	GRAG: Generation-Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ped100X	Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Natthapath Rungseesiripak, Peerawat Rojratchadakorn, Monthol Charattrakool, Natapong Nitarach	DoTA-RAG: Dynamic of Thought Aggregation RAG
HLTCOE	Eugene Yang, Andrew Yates, Orion Weller, Kevin Duh, Dawn Lawrie	HLTCOE at LiveRAG: GPT-Researcher using ColBERT retrieval
Magikarp	Tong Zhou	Knowledge-Aware Diverse Reranking for Cross-Source Question Answering
PRMAS-DRCA	Priyanshu Raj Mall, Aman Sinha, Dwaipayan Roy	Team PRMAS-DRCA: SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge

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