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Curved Space, Straighter Retrieval: Why Graph RAG Needs Geometry

Curved Space, Straighter Retrieval: Why Graph RAG Needs Geometry Retrieval looks simple until the wrong thing keeps showing up. A company builds a graph model over products, papers, suppliers, users, or transactions. The model performs reasonably well inside familiar territory. Then the data shifts. New products appear. A new research domain enters the citation graph. A social platform changes user behavior. The model’s internal knowledge, frozen inside parameters, starts behaving like yesterday’s org chart: technically structured, operationally stale. ...

June 6, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina