HKUDS/LightRAG

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

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LightRAG helps developers build efficient AI applications that can answer questions accurately using large amounts of information. It takes your unstructured data (like documents, images, and videos) and a user's question, then provides a precise answer with citations to the original sources. This tool is designed for AI developers and engineers who are creating advanced conversational AI or knowledge retrieval systems.

29,302 stars. Actively maintained with 309 commits in the last 30 days.

Use this if you are a developer building RAG-powered applications and need a flexible, fast, and scalable framework to integrate various data types and storage solutions.

Not ideal if you are an end-user looking for a ready-to-use application, as this is a developer tool requiring technical implementation.

AI development conversational AI knowledge retrieval multimodal AI large language models
No Package No Dependents
Maintenance 22 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 22 / 25

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Language

Python

License

MIT

Last pushed

Mar 13, 2026

Commits (30d)

309

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