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