The paper introduces Athena for Cloud Knowledge Base, a fully offline multi‑agent Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system tailored for Vodafone Idea’s Telecom SNOC environment. It combines dense E5 Large V2 embeddings, BM25 sparse retrieval, and Knowledge Graph expansion, fusing results with Weighted CombSUM, cross‑encoder reranking, and MMR to produce a diverse evidence set. The framework further verifies each chunk with an LLM before response generation, discarding weak evidence and falling back to multi‑chunk evaluation when necessary, achieving an MRR@10 of 0.910 and an EM of 78.4% on a 4,200‑document corpus.
By Harish Saragadam, Sudhanshu Sharma, Ipsha Routray
arXiv:2608.21702v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds LLM generation on retrieved documents, but the standard terminal retrieval stage--dense-vector similarity,...
By Jing Liu, Yongxing Qi, Muchen Jiang, Chengnan Hu, Qingqing Peng, Haoming Wang, Yuqing Wang, Yang Yu, Xu Zhang, Ting Wu
Corpus2Skill is a retrieval architecture that transforms an enterprise knowledge base into a hierarchical skill directory, enabling an LLM agent to navigate from high-level summaries to specific documents and backtrack when necessary. On an enterprise customer‑support benchmark, it outperforms single‑shot dense, hybrid, hierarchical‑retrieval, and agentic RAG baselines in answer quality and grounding, with a moderate cost tradeoff. An eleven‑dataset study shows that corpus navigation excels on single‑domain corpora with a recoverable topical taxonomy but is less effective on open‑domain factoid pools or homogeneous‑tabular corpora, providing a design guideline for knowledge‑grounded systems.
By Yiqun Sun, Pengfei Wei, Lawrence B. Hsieh
arXiv:2606. 28367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is routinely extended with methods meant to improve retrieval: query expansion, hierarchical and cross-document summarization, graph-based expansion, per-query routing, rank fusion, and corrective re-retrieval.
By Sadanand Singh, Allam Reddy, Manan Chopra
arXiv:2605. 06647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented agents are increasingly the interface to large knowledge bases, yet most treat retrieval as a black box: they issue exploratory queries, inspect snippets, and reformulate until evidence emerges.
By Zeyu Yang, Qi Ma, Jason Chen, Anshumali Shrivastava
arXiv:2608.29753v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-hop question answering in retrieval-augmented gener?ation (RAG) often benefits from retrieving beyond the few candidates that will finally be rea...
By Haokun Deng, Xunkai Li, Hongchao Qin, Rong-Hua Li