arXiv:2603.12396cs.IRcs.AI2026-03ACL被引 1

优化智能体RAG的测试时策略,提升问答准确率与检索效率。

Test-Time Strategies for More Efficient and Accurate Agentic RAG

  • 引入上下文融合模块和去重模块改进迭代检索流程。
  • 在HotpotQA上提升5.6%准确率,减少10.5%检索轮次。
  • 适合追求高效精准问答系统的研究者与开发者。

检索增强生成(RAG)系统在处理复杂多跳问题时面临挑战,如搜索-智体(Search-R1)等迭代式框架虽有改进,但存在重复检索、结果上下文整合不佳等问题,导致无效轮次增多、推理效果下降及令牌消耗上升。本文针对测试时阶段提出改进策略:引入上下文融合模块以更好整合文档信息,以及去重模块替换已检索内容为更相关条目。在HotpotQA和Natural Questions数据集上评估,使用GPT-4.1-mini进行上下文融合的最佳方案相较Search-R1基线,精确匹配(EM)得分提升5.6%,平均检索轮次减少10.5%,验证了答案准确率与检索效率的双重提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face challenges with complex, multihop questions, and agentic frameworks such as Search-R1 (Jin et al., 2025), which operates iteratively, have been proposed to address these complexities. However, such approaches can introduce inefficiencies, including repetitive retrieval of previously processed information and challenges in contextualizing retrieved results effectively within the current generation prompt. Such issues can lead to unnecessary retrieval turns, suboptimal reasoning, inaccurate answers, and increased token consumption. In this paper, we investigate test-time modifications to the Search-R1 pipeline to mitigate these identified shortcomings. Specifically, we explore the integration of two components and their combination: a contextualization module to better integrate relevant information from retrieved documents into reasoning, and a de-duplication module that replaces previously retrieved documents with the next most relevant ones. We evaluate our approaches using the HotpotQA (Yang et al., 2018) and the Natural Questions (Kwiatkowski et al., 2019) datasets, reporting the exact match (EM) score, an LLM-as-a-Judge assessment of answer correctness, and the average number of turns. Our best-performing variant, utilizing GPT-4.1-mini for contextualization, achieves a 5.6% increase in EM score and reduces the number of turns by 10.5% compared to the Search-R1 baseline, demonstrating improved answer accuracy and retrieval efficiency.

RAG智能体检索优化

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