arXiv Computation and Language

Context as Infrastructure: Knowledge Compilation for Retrieval in Agentic Systems with Harnesses

The paper introduces RAGFlow, a retrieval‑augmented generation framework that transforms an undisciplined query loop into a structured pipeline of five stages. It emphasizes knowledge compilation—enriching documents with navigation hierarchies, claim‑evidence pairs, entity graphs, timelines, mind maps, ontologies, wikis, and memory—rather than improving retrieval accuracy. The compiled context reduces query tokens by 91% when evidence suffices, cuts latency from 140 s to 30 s, and provides governance and integration benefits not captured by standard accuracy benchmarks.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Agent Zero Memory: Provenance-Aware Long-Term Memory for LLM Agents

Agent Zero Memory is a provenance‑aware long‑term memory system for large language model agents that distills user interactions into three parallel memory structures: an episodic timeline, an associative entity‑event knowledge graph, and a semantic, citation‑locked hierarchical documentary memory. Retrieval is performed via an intent gate, source router, and concurrent searches across the three systems, producing integrated, cited answers that exclude fabrication and require evidence the reader has opened. The system achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LongMemEval (95.60%) and LoCoMo (93.60%) while offering a favorable accuracy‑cost‑latency trade‑off across multiple backbone LLMs.

By Ming Wu, Pengyuan Zhu
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

The paper introduces Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two search agents trained at 35B and 397B parameter scales. They use a novel data pipeline that constructs reverse‑engineered multi‑hop queries from web hyperlinks, filters trajectories, and alternates supervised fine‑tuning with reinforcement learning in a process called SFT‑RL climbing. Evaluations on several benchmarks show that, with inference‑time context management, the agents achieve the best open‑source results in their parameter ranges.

By Ziyuan Liu, Hengqi Liu, Zichuan Wang, Yang Qin, Jiachen Liang, Xu Chu, Shaowei Chen, Yuantao Gu, Mu Chuan
arXiv AI
Oct 12

Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QA

KnowForge is a modular pipeline for open‑domain multimodal document question answering that separates retrieval, judging, and reading into distinct agents. It uses a hybrid‑retrieval knowledge‑point index, a Locator agent for searching, a Bridge Judge to enforce a second hop, a Deep Reader that handles text, images, and tables, and a synthesizer with format checking. On the M3DocVQA benchmark it achieves an F1 of 47.5, outperforming prior systems by 11 points, and shows strong gains on MultiHop‑RAG and MMLongBench‑Doc as well.

By Wenlin Lin, Fanzhe Wei
arXiv AI
Jul 3

ContextNest: Verifiable Context Governance for Autonomous AI Agent

arXiv:2607. 02116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI agents increasingly depend on external knowledge stores, yet most retrieval pipelines provide relevance without durable guarantees of provenance, version identity, integrity, traceability, or point-in-time reconstruction.

By Misha Sulpovar (PromptOwl, LLC), Benn R. Konsynski (Goizueta Business School, Emory University), Qaish Kanchwala (IBM Research), Gabe Goodhart (IBM Research)
arXiv AI
Aug 24

RAG Deserves an Index: Why Ingest-Time Compilation Beats Query-Time Interpretation

The paper argues that retrieval‑augmented question‑answering systems should perform semantic compilation at ingest time rather than re‑deriving meaning at query time. By building a maintained structure—incrementally updated embeddings and validated atomic claims—read operations become far cheaper, with experimental results showing higher accuracy and lower token usage compared to traditional chunk‑based retrieval. The authors present two proofs: cheaper incremental updates and superior performance on broadcast‑interview transcripts, suggesting a new systems agenda for compilation and read planning.

By Kyle Wild, Yusuke Takahashi, Asako Uraki
arXiv AI
Oct 26

Reimagining Enterprise RAG for Multi-Agent Systems: A Knowledge Layer That Organizes Before It Retrieves

The paper presents a knowledge layer that reorganizes enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for multi‑agent systems by placing an ontology at the artifact level rather than on extracted entities. Using a seven‑agent reverse‑engineering pipeline, the authors processed 241 repositories across 18 services to generate thousands of artifacts that capture scope, journeys, rules, and acceptance criteria, each tagged with provenance metadata. The resulting self‑describing catalog, sparse metadata registry, and navigation hypergraph enable queries to resolve to artifact identifiers, thereby structurally disambiguating near‑identical rules and improving retrieval accuracy. The system was built in under a week and helped root‑cause over 100 production defects and attribute 35 release regressions to specific rules and services.

By Garima Agrawal, Prasun Das, Akshay Sarvade, Priyanka L, Minisha N, Sravani Joshna, Hemath Manivannan, Lavanya Korada, Sambhrit Pattanayak, Srashti Gupta, Siddu R, Prasad Kalyanasundaram
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Experience Graphs: The Data Foundation for Self-Improving Agents

arXiv:2606. 29823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The database community has repeatedly advanced the state of the art by recognizing that new workloads demand new system architectures.

By Gang Liao, Yujia He, Abdullah Ozturk, Zhouyang Li, Ying Wang, Zhitong Guo, Hongsen Qin, Yaobin Qin, Tao Yang, Zewei Jiang, Dianshi Li, Jort Gemmeke, Jiangyuan Li, Liyuan Li, Nathan Yan, Masha Basmanova, Uladzimir Pashkevich, Matt Steiner, Pedro Pedreira, Rob Fergus, Anirudh Goyal, Carole-Jean Wu, Gaoxiang Liu, Andrew Witten, Daniel J. Abadi