Research line · emerging

Agentic and search-augmented generation

Give the generator tools, search, or a planning loop, so it can render subjects its training data never covered.

What defines membership

Some generation failures are knowledge failures rather than capability failures, and the fix is retrieval or agency rather than more parameters.

Read top to bottom: what came before, the idea itself, the evidence for it, what improved, and where it breaks.

Re-Imagen · 2022-09landmark

Retrieves image-text pairs from an external knowledge base to render entities the model never learned, and benchmarks exactly that failure.

Idea2Img · 2023-10core

Puts a multimodal model in a loop that drafts, critiques and rewrites its own prompt.

Surveys the space once it became a wave rather than a handful of papers.

GenArtist · 2024-07core

An agent that plans, decomposes into tool calls, and verifies the result.

SearchGen · 2026-07emerging

Gives the generator live search so it can render subjects its training data never covered.

Attacks a failure mode that scaling does not fix: the model simply not knowing what a thing looks like
Composes with any generator, since it changes what reaches the model rather than the model itself