arXiv AI

Co-Evolving Structured Knowledge and Reasoning in Language Models

The paper introduces KBevo, a co‑evolving framework that simultaneously builds a structured knowledge base and performs reasoning over it for knowledge‑intensive question answering. By optimizing both components end‑to‑end with QA outcome rewards, the system improves the quality and connectivity of the knowledge base, leading to higher answer reachability and better compositional factual reasoning. Compared to standard retrieval baselines, KBevo offers greater controllability and improved factual accuracy.

arXiv AI
Oct 27

Rethinking Retrieval in the Long-Context Era: Training-Free Semantic Trees for Adaptive Context Construction

The paper introduces TreeFuse, a training‑free framework that builds a semantic hierarchy from a full document and uses it to select and organize evidence for a query. By combining structural–semantic scoring with lexical attribution, TreeFuse retains supporting facts and relations while focusing the context on the question. Experiments on four large‑context models show a 1.72‑point improvement in QA‑F1 over full‑context prompting and a 58.55% reduction in answer‑context length.

By Zhe Xu, Tianhao Liao, Zhenqing Ling, Ying Shen, Yaliang Li, Daoyuan Chen
arXiv AI
Oct 16

CARA: Causally Guided Retrieval Agent for Question Answering

CARA is a training‑free, causally guided retrieval agent designed for question answering over text‑rich knowledge graphs. It evaluates retrieved evidence using two causal criteria—consequentiality and essentiality—alongside path consistency, and aggregates results from multiple agents via reciprocal rank fusion. Experiments on three STaRK datasets show that CARA outperforms existing retrievers, improving answer quality and faithfulness while examining fewer graph nodes and requiring fewer retrieval operations.

By Weicheng Liu, Xiangcheng Wu, Depeng Xu, Haopeng Zhang, Xi Niu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

HybridRAG-BN: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework with Fine-Tuned Verification for Bangla KBQA

Knowledge-base question answering (KBQA) systems rely on effective retrieval and reasoning mechanisms to generate accurate answers from external knowledge sources. However, developing reliable KBQA systems for low-resource languages such as Bangla remains challenging due to limited retrieval-focused research, scarce language resources, and difficulties in grounding generated responses in external knowledge.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Retrieval from Within: An Intrinsic Capability of Attention-Based Models

The paper introduces INTRA, an attention-based encoder-decoder framework that retrieves directly from its own internal representations instead of using an external retriever. By having decoder attention query pre-encoded evidence chunks, INTRA unifies retrieval and generation, eliminating the typical mismatch seen in retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Experiments on question-answering benchmarks show that INTRA outperforms strong engineered retrieval pipelines in both evidence recall and overall answer quality.

By Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau, Edan Kinderman, Ron Banner, Daniel Soudry, Boris Ginsburg
arXiv AI
Jun 10

LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake

arXiv:2606. 10460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown rapid progress in reading-based question answering (QA), where evidence is explicitly provided or can be trivially retrieved.

By Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, Eugene Wu