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ISO-RAG: Isoperimetric Noise Control for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

R$^{2}$Adapter: A Routing and Rewriting Adapter for Efficient Hybrid RAG

R$^{2}$Adapter is a lightweight plug‑in that dynamically routes user queries between vanilla and graph‑based Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. By sending only those queries that truly benefit from graph reasoning, it cuts graph‑retrieval overhead by up to 59% while keeping answer accuracy comparable. The adapter also rewrites uncertain graph‑routed queries to better expose multi‑hop reasoning needs, improving retrieval quality without extra supervision.

By Yucan Guo, Miao Su, Saiping Guan, Long Bai, Zhongni Hou, Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

GTA-RAG: Graph-Trajectory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.22479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables LLMs to access external knowledge for answering knowledge-intensive questions. For complex multi-hop quest...

By Jun Chen, Yongchao Liu, Pengyu Qiu, Jiajun Zheng, Juelu Zhang, Yujie Zeng, Qin Zhang, Ziyue Qiao, Xiao Luo
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

SelfGraphRAG: Bridging the Supervision Gap in Graph-Based RAG with Synthetic QA Generation

SelfGraphRAG is a framework that generates synthetic question‑answer pairs directly from the structure of a knowledge graph to train a query‑conditioned graph retriever. By capturing multi‑hop paths and local neighborhoods, the generated questions provide relational supervision without requiring manually labeled data. Experiments on multi‑hop question answering and classification tasks show that SelfGraphRAG improves retrieval precision and downstream reasoning performance compared to embedding‑based baselines.

By Ben Lagnese, Manas Gaur
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

VikingRAG: Accurate and Token-efficient Retrieval-augmented Generation over Structured Documents

VikingRAG is a directory‑aware semantic data management system that reduces token usage in retrieval‑augmented generation by tightly integrating semantic and structural access. It employs multi‑round retrieval traces as reusable experience edges and an adaptive escalation strategy to avoid unnecessary multi‑round exploration. Experiments show that VikingRAG achieves comparable accuracy to state‑of‑the‑art methods while using only 11.6%–51.9% of their tokens, and further reductions to 5.1%–32.5% with trace reuse and escalation.

By Peiyuan Gao, Gaoyuan Zhang, Haojie Qin, Yahui Sun, Qianyi Zhang, Yunhao Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Wei Lu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

UnWeaving the knots of GraphRAG -- turns out VectorRAG is almost enough

arXiv:2603. 29875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One of the key problems in Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is that chunk-based retrieval pipelines represent the source chunks as atomic objects, mixing the information contained within such a chunk into a single vector.

By Ryszard Tuora, Mateusz Gali\'nski, Micha{\l} Godziszewski, Micha{\l} Karpowicz, Mateusz Czy\.znikiewicz, Adam Kozakiewicz, Tomasz Zi\k{e}tkiewicz
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