arXiv Computation and Language

Graph Topology Meets Energy-Driven Pathfinding: Preserving Contextual Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ThreadRAG is a retrieval‑augmented generation framework that preserves contextual consistency by structuring retrieved documents into Semantic Nodes and building a Semantic Topology Graph (STG). It uses Energy‑Driven Pathfinding (EDP) to identify query‑relevant subgraphs and linearize them into coherent textual evidence paths. Experiments on HotpotQA, 2WikiMultihop, and another benchmark show ThreadRAG outperforms strong baselines, achieving a 14.4% EM gain on HotpotQA and a 5.8% EM lead on 2WikiMultihop while cutting token cost to 23.3% of the strongest baseline.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

A Unified Framework for Context-Aware and Relation-Aware Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2606. 18075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, yet existing graph-based methods face a fundamental limitation: entity-centric and chunk-centric approaches operate on representations anchored to original text without true knowledge fusion.

By Haoyang Zhong, Yifei Sun, Antong Zhang, Chunping Wang, Lei Chen, Yang Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

Do Large Language Models Play Six Degrees of Separation? Measuring Topological Compression in Long-Context Manifolds

The paper shows that large language models (LLMs) naturally organize their hidden state manifolds into small‑world networks, enabling efficient multi‑hop reasoning. By converting similarity matrices into unweighted graphs, the authors trace connectivity between distant semantic anchors and find a sharp topological phase transition: deep reasoning layers compress conceptual distances into paths bounded by six semantic hops, while early syntactic layers remain fragmented. The framework is applied to zero‑shot hallucination detection in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, revealing that factual generations preserve a ~3‑hop structure, whereas hallucinations collapse the topology.

By Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ACE-GraphRAG: Agentic Context Engineering for Hierarchical GraphRAG

arXiv:2608. 01269v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hierarchical Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) organizes corpus knowledge at multiple levels of granularity, yet fixed context construction may fail to translate these multi-resolution representations into a context suited to the current query.

By Yongfeng Huang, Yuren Lai, Ruiying Chen, Haoyu Huang, Mingming Zhao, James Cheng