融合检索与生成,提升医疗问答的准确性和可靠性。
From Retrieval to Generation: Unifying External and Parametric Knowledge for Medical Question Answering
- 通过生成补全检索缺失知识,实现内外知识协同。
- 在5个医疗问答数据集上提升12.5%准确率。
- 适合需要高可靠性的医疗AI系统开发者。
医疗问答需要广泛访问领域知识。现有方法分为两类:基于检索的增强生成(RAG)依赖外部证据,但易受噪声或不完整检索影响;基于生成的增强生成(GAG)仅依赖模型内知识,但存在幻觉和错误。为解决这些问题,我们提出MedRGAG,一个统一的检索-生成增强框架,融合外部与参数化知识。其包含两个核心模块:知识引导的上下文补全(KGCC),引导生成补充检索遗漏的知识;知识感知的文档选择(KADS),自适应选取最优的检索与生成文档组合,形成简洁且全面的证据支持答案生成。在五个医疗问答基准上的实验表明,MedRGAG相比MedRAG提升12.5%,相比MedGENIE提升4.5%,验证了统一检索与生成在知识密集型推理中的有效性。代码与数据已公开于https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MedRGAG。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical question answering (QA) requires extensive access to domain-specific knowledge. A promising direction is to enhance large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge retrieved from medical corpora or parametric knowledge stored in model parameters. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which grounds model reasoning on externally retrieved evidence, and Generation-Augmented Generation (GAG), which depends solely on the models internal knowledge to generate contextual documents. However, RAG often suffers from noisy or incomplete retrieval, while GAG is vulnerable to hallucinated or inaccurate information due to unconstrained generation. Both issues can mislead reasoning and undermine answer reliability. To address these challenges, we propose MedRGAG, a unified retrieval-generation augmented framework that seamlessly integrates external and parametric knowledge for medical QA. MedRGAG comprises two key modules: Knowledge-Guided Context Completion (KGCC), which directs the generator to produce background documents that complement the missing knowledge revealed by retrieval; and Knowledge-Aware Document Selection (KADS), which adaptively selects an optimal combination of retrieved and generated documents to form concise yet comprehensive evidence for answer generation. Extensive experiments on five medical QA benchmarks demonstrate that MedRGAG achieves a 12.5% improvement over MedRAG and a 4.5% gain over MedGENIE, highlighting the effectiveness of unifying retrieval and generation for knowledge-intensive reasoning. Our code and data are publicly available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MedRGAG
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