arXiv:2601.18116cs.CL2026-01被引 1

提出结构化证据分配框架,高效利用有限查询预算提升多文档推理性能。

BEAR: Budgeted Evidence Allocation for Multi-Document Reasoning

  • 构建分层语义索引,查询时分步筛选证据,实现粗粒度到细粒度的精准访问
  • 在DragonBall等基准上表现优异,且所需查询证据预算远低于长上下文基线
  • 适合资源受限场景下的复杂推理任务,尤其对多文档问答有显著提升

我们指出,多文档推理不仅受模型可读文本量限制,更受查询阶段证据预算分配方式制约。全上下文推理虽覆盖广泛但成本高,而扁平切块检索常返回局部相关但缺乏跨文档整合结构的片段。本文提出BEAR框架,离线构建分层语义索引,查询时通过互补的‘探索’与‘恢复’路径实现从粗到细的证据访问,形成固定证据预算下的结构化分配机制。在合成与真实世界基准上,BEAR在DragonBall上表现突出,在HotpotQA上与强检索基线竞争,2Wiki上取得最佳检索基线结果,且查询时证据预算显著低于已有长上下文参考方案。额外分析表明,性能提升源于层级作为分配基础,以及探索与恢复路径的互补性,而非单纯语义切块。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We argue that multi-document reasoning is constrained not only by how much text a model can read, but also by how limited query-time evidence budget is allocated across documents and semantic granularities. Full-context inference exposes the model to broad evidence non-selectively and at high per-query cost, while flat chunk retrieval often returns locally relevant passages that are weakly organized for cross-document synthesis. We present \textbf{BEAR}, a framework for structured evidence allocation that builds hierarchical semantic indices offline and performs coarse-to-fine evidence access at query time through complementary \emph{exploration} and \emph{recovery} paths. This coarse-to-fine design can be viewed as structured evidence allocation under a fixed evidence-context budget. Across synthetic and real-world benchmarks, BEAR performs particularly strongly on DragonBall, remains competitive with strong retrieval-based baselines on HotpotQA, and yields the best retrieval-based result on 2Wiki under our evaluated protocol, while operating under substantially smaller \emph{query-time evidence budgets} than the reported long-context references. Additional analyses suggest that the gains are associated with hierarchy as an allocation substrate together with complementary exploration and recovery, rather than semantic chunking alone.

多文档推理证据分配结构化检索预算优化

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