FLANS at SemEval-2026 Task 7: RAG with Open-Sourced Smaller LLMs for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures

Researchers developed FLANS, a system using retrieval-augmented generation with open-source smaller language models for the SemEval-2025 multilingual knowledge task. The system creates culturally-aware knowledge bases from Wikipedia content and integrates live search capabilities, focusing on privacy and sustainability through smaller LLMs deployed on the Ollama platform.