arXiv Computation and Language By Yuchao Wu

SAG2: Embedding-Free Multi-Hop Retrieval with BM25 and JEV

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SAG2 is an embedding‑free multi‑hop retrieval system that relies on a single SQLite database, BM25, and contextual evidence decisions from JEV. It replaces dense indexes with a lexical index over original passages, allowing query‑time evidence selection without offline embedding computation or dedicated database servers. On several benchmark datasets, SAG2 achieves the highest Recall@5 and Recall@10, demonstrating strong retrieval accuracy with lightweight preparation and rapid indexing.

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arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

SAG: SQL-Retrieval Augmented Generation with Query-Time Dynamic Hyperedges

SAG (SQL‑Retrieval Augmented Generation) is a structured retrieval framework that indexes documents as event‑entity pairs, forming latent hyperedges that preserve n‑ary relations without building a global knowledge graph. At query time, shared entities act as join keys, dynamically creating a query‑scoped neighborhood of related events while keeping each evidence chunk intact. Experiments on HotpotQA, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and MuSiQue demonstrate that SAG outperforms existing dense‑retrieval baselines, achieving the highest recall and end‑to‑end QA performance, especially as reasoning‑chain complexity grows.

By Yuchao Wu, Junqin Li, Xingcheng Liang, Yongjie Chen, Yinghao Liang, Linyuan Mo, Guanxian Li