arXiv:2603. 26815v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for financial document QA typically follow a chunk-based paradigm: documents are split into fragments, embedded, and retrieved by similarity.
By Zhiyuan Cheng, Longying Lai, Yue Liu
arXiv:2608. 16309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static pruning is widely used to accelerate sparse neural retrieval, yet existing studies each validate their conclusions within a single custom pipeline, leaving it unclear which findings transfer to modern engines with different index organizations and dynamic pruning mechanisms.
By Zirui Song, Yuye Zhu, Yang Yang
Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph Expansion, RRF Fusion, and Per-Chunk Grounded Evaluation for Enterprise Document Search describes DocuSearch, an offline multi‑agent system designed for telecom network operations. The system combines semantic vector search, BM25 full‑text search, and knowledge‑graph neighbor expansion, merges the results via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and reranks with a cross‑encoder before pruning with Maximal Marginal Relevance. A per‑chunk evaluation loop ensures only grounded answers are returned, achieving Precision@10 of 0.69, Recall@10 of 0.79, and an 89.6% grounding rate—improvements of 15, 16, and 18.4 percentage points over a dense‑only baseline.
By Harish Saragadam, Sudhanshu Sharma, Meghana Pujari
arXiv:2609.05637v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A popular way to improve Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is to rewrite the user's question into several variants and search with all of them....
By Sara Shanian, Xiaoqin Yi, Pavlo Ruban, Kurt MacDonald
arXiv:2511. 16681v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vector databases (VecDBs) are increasingly deployed in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines where query processing and document ingestion occur concurrently.
By Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu
arXiv:2607. 11942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: KV-cache compression methods are predominantly evaluated with the query appended to the context before compression -- a query-aware protocol.
By Daming Luo, Christy Liang, Junyu Xuan
arXiv:2608.22856v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A retrieval-augmented QA system can return different answers after an index expansion even when its requested model identifier, prompt, retrieval pol...
By Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li
arXiv:2606. 09877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM wiki systems compile knowledge into pre-filled KV caches for efficient inference, but assume a static corpus -- an assumption that fails whenever the underlying information landscape evolves.
By Juan M. Huerta
arXiv:2607. 24781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RAG systems rely on chunking, which destroys structural information in documents.
By Ng S. T. Chong
arXiv:2607. 04281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic caching reduces the latency and cost of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by serving cached answers to semantically similar queries, but most existing methods do not model the time-varying freshness of open-web evidence.
By Muhammad Mansoor, Tahir Ahmad, Yeo-Chan Yoon
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.
By Vineet Kumar, Meghanadh Pulivarthi, vishwajeet kumar, Jaydeep Sen, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Sachindra Joshi
arXiv:2601.20107v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models (e.g., ColPali) enable fine-grained Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) but incur prohibitive multi-vector index st...
By Zhuchenyang Liu, Ziyu Hu, Yao Zhang, Yu Xiao