LightRAG v1.5 is here! The biggest release ever! π
35k+ GitHub β | 1.1M+ downloads | 251 contributors | 1.1k+ PRs merged
Here are the 6 major improvements:
β’ π Multimodal Document Processing - Comprehensive indexing and Q&A for images, tables, and formulas
β’ π§ Enhanced Document Parsing - Integration with MinerU and Docling, plus native DOCX parsing
β’ βοΈ Four Text Chunking Strategies - Fixed / Recursive / Semantic Vector / Paragraph Semantic
β’ π Role-specific LLM Configuration - Independent models for EXTRACT / QUERY / KEYWORDS / VLM roles
β’ π Enhanced Structured Extraction - JSON output and externalized entity type prompts
β’ π§ Task-aware Embeddings - Native support for asymmetric models like voyage-3 and text-embedding-004
Making RAG Simpler, Faster & More Powerful!
π GitHub: github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG
Zirui Guo (@ziruiguocs)
π LightRAG v1.5.0rc2 is out β 1.1K+ merged PRs, 1.1M+ downloads.
What's new:
β’ Multimodal RAG
β’ MinerU + Docling + native DOCX parsing
β’ 4 chunking strategies
β’ Role-specific LLMs
β’ JSON-structured extraction
β’ Task-aware embeddings
π github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG
β https://nitter.net/ziruiguocs/status/2058069958706548765#m