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SpectRAG: Weighted Chunk Graphs for Token-Budgeted Context Selection in Multi-Hop Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

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.

By Yufeng Li, Zaijing Li, Fuchen Zhang, Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang
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 AI
Sep 16

ORDER: Task-Conditioned Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces ORDER, a task‑conditioned retrieval‑augmented generation framework that dynamically adapts both indexing and retrieval strategies to each incoming query. It first clusters questions to learn cluster‑specific chunking, metadata filtering, and reranking settings, then routes queries to the appropriate pre‑built index via nearest‑centroid assignment. Additionally, a supervised query router predicts relevant collections and a Uniform Multi‑source Sampler distributes the retrieval budget evenly across selected sources, yielding superior performance on heterogeneous historical archives compared to existing RAG systems.

By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez, Marie Puren
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

The Bottleneck Is Retrieval, Not Reading: Diagnosing Evidence-Based Generation with RAG for Long Context Question Answering

arXiv:2610.26951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the dominant paradigm for grounding large language models in external corpora, but its similarity-driven, chunk...

By Debopriyo Banerjee, Owais Aijaz, Ahmer Tabassum, Zhuohan Xie, Preslav Nakov, Veselin Stoyanov
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
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

CAGE: Coherence-Aware Graph Encoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

CAGE: Coherence-Aware Graph Encoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation introduces a reranking framework that evaluates and enhances the coherence of retrieved passages across four dimensions—Intra-Domain Relevance, Noise Resistance, Informational Bonding, and Factual Consistency. The method transforms passages into directed heterogeneous entity graphs, reweights factual anchors, encodes structural patterns with a Relational Graph Convolutional Network, and fuses inter-chunk coherence with query relevance to produce a final ranking. Evaluations on four multi‑hop benchmarks show that CAGE matches or surpasses strong baselines, improving Recall@5 on bridge‑dominated datasets and consistently boosting downstream Exact Match scores, indicating that structurally coherent context leads to more precise answers even when retrieval recall is similar or lower.

By Tong Qi, Jingyu Wu, Youbing Yin, Spencer Hong, Daben Liu, Erin Babinsky