同时考虑相似与关联信息,提升多跳问答的检索效果。
SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning
- 构建相似性树与关联性树双路径索引结构
- 在三个多跳数据集上平均提升1.9%的F1分数
- 适合需要深度知识融合的复杂问答系统
在检索增强生成(RAG)系统中,索引是实现高性能的关键步骤。现有方法仅基于语义相似性或相关性组织数据,未能全面覆盖两种视角。分析表明,单一建模导致知识融合不足,影响复杂任务表现。本文提出SiReRAG,一种同时考虑相似与关联信息的新索引方法:在相似性侧,采用递归摘要构建相似性树;在相关性侧,提取命题与实体,通过共享实体分组并生成递归摘要构建关联性树。将两者合并为统一检索池。实验显示,SiReRAG在MuSiQue、2WikiMultiHopQA和HotpotQA三个多跳数据集上均优于现有方法,平均F1提升1.9%。作为高效方案,其可显著增强现有重排序方法,最高带来7.8%的平均F1提升。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Indexing is an important step towards strong performance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, existing methods organize data based on either semantic similarity (similarity) or related information (relatedness), but do not cover both perspectives comprehensively. Our analysis reveals that modeling only one perspective results in insufficient knowledge synthesis, leading to suboptimal performance on complex tasks requiring multihop reasoning. In this paper, we propose SiReRAG, a novel RAG indexing approach that explicitly considers both similar and related information. On the similarity side, we follow existing work and explore some variances to construct a similarity tree based on recursive summarization. On the relatedness side, SiReRAG extracts propositions and entities from texts, groups propositions via shared entities, and generates recursive summaries to construct a relatedness tree. We index and flatten both similarity and relatedness trees into a unified retrieval pool. Our experiments demonstrate that SiReRAG consistently outperforms state-of-the-art indexing methods on three multihop datasets (MuSiQue, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and HotpotQA), with an average 1.9% improvement in F1 scores. As a reasonably efficient solution, SiReRAG enhances existing reranking methods significantly, with up to 7.8% improvement in average F1 scores. Our code is available at https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/SiReRAG .
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