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Retrieval-Augmented Generation - The Future of Search? (Dagstuhl Seminar 25391) Hagen, Matthias Mothe, Josiane Muresan, Smaranda Potthast, Martin Zhang, Min Stein, Benno Heineking, Sebastian Retrieval-Augmented Generation Information Retrieval Dagstuhl Seminar Dagstuhl Seminar 25391 "Retrieval-Augmented Generation - The Future of Search?" was held in the week of September 21-26, 2025. Thirty-nine researchers, most of whom came from the fields of information retrieval and web search as well as natural language processing, were invited to share the latest developments in the area of retrieval-augmented generation and discuss its research agenda and future directions. The 5-day program of the seminar consisted of four introductory and background sessions, two short talks sessions about technology and demos, one industry talk session, one afternoon hackathon, and nine working groups and reporting sessions. The seminar also had three social events during the program. This report provides the executive summary, overview of invited talks, and findings from the five working groups which cover the potential and limitations, information behavior and result presentation, the system side, societal and ethical aspects, and the evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation. The ideas and findings presented in this report should serve as one of the main sources for diverse research programs on retrieval-augmented generation. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Matthias Hagen and Josiane Mothe and Smaranda Muresan and Martin Potthast and Min Zhang and Benno Stein and Sebastian Heineking 2026 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 15, Issue 9 (2026) Article Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagRep.15.9.71 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249771 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.15.9.71 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode