用图结构提升检索完整性,不依赖额外存储
GraphER: An Efficient Graph-Based Enrichment and Reranking Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- 基于数据间邻近关系构建查询时图结构
- 在多任务基准上显著提升检索完整度
- 无需额外基础设施,适合各类检索系统
在检索增强生成(RAG)系统中,语义搜索常因证据分散于多个来源而无法获取完整信息。现有方法或依赖迭代代理式检索(计算开销大),或需维护知识图谱(增加存储与维护成本)。本文提出GraphER,一种基于图的增强与重排序框架:(1) 利用数据组织结构捕捉超越语义相似性的邻近关系;(2) 在查询时根据这些邻近性构建图;(3) 通过图算法排序并输出候选文档。在表格检索、多跳检索和长文档检索多个基准上均实现检索完整度的持续提升。GraphER无需额外图基础设施,可无缝集成至标准向量存储。该框架对检索器无依赖,支持多种邻近形式,且引入极低的查询延迟。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semantic search in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is often insufficient for complex information needs, particularly when relevant evidence is scattered across multiple sources, because it may fail to retrieve the complete set of evidence. Existing approaches to addressing this problem either rely on iterative agentic retrieval, which can be computationally inefficient, or maintain additional structures such as knowledge graphs, which introduce storage and maintenance overhead. In this paper, we propose GraphER, a graph-based enrichment and reranking framework that (1) leverages the organizational structure of data to capture proximity relationships beyond semantic similarity, (2) constructs a graph at query time based on these proximities, and (3) applies graph-based ranking to surface the top candidate documents. Experiments across table retrieval, multi-hop retrieval, and long-document retrieval benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements in terms of retrieval completeness. Additionally, GraphER requires no additional graph infrastructure and integrates seamlessly with standard vector stores. The framework is retriever-agnostic, supports multiple forms of proximity, and introduces minimal query-time latency.
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