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Advanced Photon Source deploys APS-RAG for operational knowledge access

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Researchers have developed APS-RAG, a platform designed to make the vast operational knowledge of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) accessible through natural language queries. This system integrates various retrieval methods, including dense, sparse, and knowledge-graph channels, enhanced by a corrective agentic loop and a ReAct executor. An evaluation dataset, APS-Bench, was created to assess the system's performance, with the full Agentic GraphRAG achieving a 70.3% strict vital-nugget recall, significantly outperforming a naive BM25 baseline. AI

IMPACT This system offers a transferable workflow for AI assistance in large scientific instruments, improving access to operational knowledge.

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Advanced Photon Source deploys APS-RAG for operational knowledge access

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rajat Sainju, Dariusz Jarosz, Hairong Shang, Michael Prince, Ryan M. Aydelott, Mathew J. Cherukara, Yine Sun, Michael D. Borland ·

    A corrective agentic hybrid RAG and an operations-grounded evaluation for a scientific facility

    arXiv:2607.24663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific user facilities accumulate decades of operational knowledge that no single search index covers: electronic logbooks, technical documents, internal wikis, operations chat messages, maintenance records, and live control-s…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Michael D. Borland ·

    A corrective agentic hybrid RAG and an operations-grounded evaluation for a scientific facility

    Scientific user facilities accumulate decades of operational knowledge that no single search index covers: electronic logbooks, technical documents, internal wikis, operations chat messages, maintenance records, and live control-system data. We present APS-RAG, Advanced Photon So…

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