GraphRAG

This post summarizes the Microsoft Research paper From Local to Global: A GraphRAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization, drawing also on the video [Paper Review] GraphRAG by Seoul National University’s DSBA Lab. RAG works by building a trusted document collection ahead of time, then, when a question comes in, retrieving the relevant documents and handing them to an LLM as grounding for its answer. The basic pieces are indexing (chunking documents into a searchable form), retrieval (finding documents relevant to the question), and generation (producing an answer from the retrieved documents and the question). ...

March 13, 2026 · 7 min · Donghyung Ko