arXiv:2607. 24767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a powerful process for allowing large language models (LLMs) to retrieve relevant information to use as source material during text generation.
arXiv:2607. 01852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems use the question-answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to access information outside their parameters.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems use the question-answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to access information outside their parameters. We evaluate if cluster-based semantic chunking improves retrieval and answer quality compared to fixed-size and recursive chunking evaluating on long, structured academic theses using the Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment (RAGAs) framework.
The paper introduces STAIR, a retrieval system that uses a document’s Table of Contents to guide large language models in accessing global structure, thereby reducing hallucinations in Retrieval Augmented Generation. Experiments with a fine‑tuned Differentiable Search Index show that ToC‑based retrieval yields a low hallucination rate (<0.05%) and improves Recall@1 to 82.6% on the newly released SearchTome benchmark, outperforming baselines like BM25, DPR, and Mistral. The authors also release SearchTome, a diverse dataset of 18 books across six domains, to encourage further research in ToC‑based retrieval.
arXiv:2603. 26667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) turns external documents into evidence for large language models.
arXiv:2606. 14817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system for generating personalized reading content using Large Language Models (LLMs) combined with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Intent-Driven Dynamic Chunking (IDC) segments documents by predicting user queries with a Large Language Model and then applying dynamic programming to find optimal chunk boundaries. This method outperforms traditional fixed-length or coherence-based segmentation on five out of six question-answering datasets, improving top-1 retrieval accuracy by 5% to 67% and reducing the number of chunks by 40–60% while maintaining 93–100% answer coverage. IDC demonstrates that aligning document structure with anticipated information needs can significantly boost retrieval performance for long and heterogeneous documents.
arXiv:2606. 28337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are often evaluated using final answer accuracy, even though their failures can originate from preprocessing, retrieval, context packing, or generation.
The paper introduces EAR, an Entity‑Aware Partitioning approach that improves retrieval‑augmented generation for multiple‑choice question answering by extracting normalized surface anchors from questions, answers, and the corpus. EAR retrieves local windows around matching anchors and can attach a larger parent passage via an extractive summary, reducing retrieved words by 37.5‑40.2% compared to fixed‑size chunks. Experiments on a cleaned MMLU‑style subset with Mistral, Gemma, and DeepSeek show modest accuracy changes, none statistically significant, highlighting EAR’s methodological contribution of compact, inspectable retrieval units.
arXiv:2503.06868v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing long-text generation methods produce lengthy outputs from short inputs, leaving long-input-to-long-output generation underexplored....
arXiv:2608.21252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Question answering (QA) over long, connected documents remains challenging because relevant evidence may span multiple entities and their relationshi...
The paper presents a benchmark that compares seven long‑form generation frameworks across three granularities—single chapter, multi‑chapter, and whole book—using an anchor‑based LLM‑as‑a‑judge protocol to evaluate outlines directly. Results show no single framework dominates across all settings; performance depends on how well a framework’s output form matches the target granularity, with SuperWriter excelling in length‑constrained single‑chapter mode but losing advantage in whole‑book mode. The study finds only moderate correlation between outline and writing quality, supporting the idea that these two stages should be evaluated separately.
The study investigates how document segmentation (chunking) and embedding choices influence Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) performance for Turkish, a morphologically rich language. Using a fully crossed experimental design, the authors compare three chunking strategies (fixed-length, semantic, and layout-aware Docling), five embedding models, and two large language model generators across three documents with different layouts, generating 9,000 graded question-answer evaluations. Key findings include that layout-aware chunking reduces the impact of embedding choice, the top embedding models perform similarly, faster generators are not more accurate, and the optimal configuration varies with content type, achieving a best overall accuracy of 87.0%.