LightRAG license, foundation and stars
LLM application frameworks · MIT (open source) · 39,849 stars
[EMNLP2025] LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
License history
LICENSE fileMIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2024.
Latest release
No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history
- Repository
- HKUDS/LightRAG · created Oct 2, 2024
- Website
- arxiv.org/abs/2410.05779
- Language
- Python
- Foundation
- None; run by its maintainers
- GitHub detects
- MIT
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 39,849 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: HKUDS/LightRAG |