arXiv AI
Oct 9

RIT-RAG: Navigating Document Corpora with Retrieval-Induced Trees

RIT‑RAG is a retrieval‑augmented generation framework that combines content retrieval with structural navigation of documents. It builds a tree for each document from its table of contents or sitemap, then uses retrieved chunk positions to induce manageable sub‑trees that an LLM agent can navigate, read selectively, and reformulate queries. Experiments on financial, scientific, and customer‑support benchmarks show RIT‑RAG outperforms vanilla, graph‑based, and agentic baselines, achieving up to 11.4‑point accuracy gains on the new EntQABench of 2.84 million technical‑documentation webpages.

By Meghanadh Pulivarthi, Swaraj Kumar Biswal, Kushagra Bhushan, Yatin Nandwani, Sachindra Joshi, Dinesh Raghu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Harness-1: Reinforcement Learning for Search Agents with State-Externalizing Harnesses

arXiv:2606. 02373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents are often trained as policies over growing transcripts: the model must decide how to search while also remembering what it has seen, which evidence is useful, which constraints remain open, and which claims have actually been checked.

By Pengcheng Jiang, Zhiyi Shi, Kelly Hong, Xueqiang Xu, Jiashuo Sun, Jimeng Sun, Hammad Bashir, Jiawei Han
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Corpus2Skill: Distilling Enterprise Knowledge into Navigable Agent Skills for QA and RAG

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 Machine Learning
Sep 11

VikingRAG: Accurate and Token-efficient Retrieval-augmented Generation over Structured Documents

VikingRAG is a directory‑aware semantic data management system that reduces token usage in retrieval‑augmented generation by tightly integrating semantic and structural access. It employs multi‑round retrieval traces as reusable experience edges and an adaptive escalation strategy to avoid unnecessary multi‑round exploration. Experiments show that VikingRAG achieves comparable accuracy to state‑of‑the‑art methods while using only 11.6%–51.9% of their tokens, and further reductions to 5.1%–32.5% with trace reuse and escalation.

By Peiyuan Gao, Gaoyuan Zhang, Haojie Qin, Yahui Sun, Qianyi Zhang, Yunhao Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Wei Lu