arXiv:2603.29875cs.IRcs.AI2026-03

用实体拆分文档,让向量检索媲美图谱,成本更低。

UnWeaving the knots of GraphRAG -- turns out VectorRAG is almost enough

  • 将文档按实体拆分,避免碎片化信息混杂
  • 向量RAG在问答任务上接近顶尖图谱方案性能
  • 大幅降低索引复杂度,适合资源受限场景

检索增强生成(RAG)系统中,基于片段的检索将原文段落视为原子对象,将其中信息混合成单一向量,且这些向量被当作独立自足的单元处理,缺乏对段落间关系的建模。这导致系统难以应对多跳问题。图谱式RAG通过将实体作为节点、关系作为边构建知识图谱,试图解决此问题,但引入了数个数量级的组件复杂度,并依赖启发式方法进行检索。本文提出UnWeaver框架,利用大模型将文档内容解耦为跨多个片段出现的实体,在检索过程中以实体为中间桥梁恢复原始文本片段,保持与源材料的一致性。我们论证,基于实体的分解能获得更凝练的信息表示,同时减少索引和生成过程中的噪声。实验表明,在端到端问答评估中,向量RAG表现优于标准图谱RAG,且几乎达到当前最先进图谱方案水平,而代价仅为后者的极小部分。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

One of the key problems in Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is that chunk-based retrieval pipelines represent the source chunks as atomic objects, mixing the information contained within such a chunk into a single vector. These vector representations are then fundamentally treated as isolated, independent and self-sufficient, with no attempt to represent possible relations between them. Such an approach has no dedicated mechanisms for handling multi-hop questions. Graph-based RAG systems aimed to ameliorate this problem by modeling information as knowledge-graphs, with entities represented by nodes being connected by robust relations, and forming hierarchical communities. This approach however suffers from its own issues with some of them being: orders of magnitude increased componential complexity in order to create graph-based indices, and reliance on heuristics for performing retrieval. We propose UnWeaver, a novel RAG framework simplifying the idea of GraphRAG. UnWeaver disentangles the contents of the documents into entities which can occur across multiple chunks using an LLM. In the retrieval process entities are used as an intermediate way of recovering original text chunks hence preserving fidelity to the source material. We argue that entity-based decomposition yields a more distilled representation of original information, and additionally serves to reduce noise in the indexing, and generation process. Furthermore we experimentally show that on end to end QA evaluation VectorRAG performs better than standard GraphRAG and almost as good as current SOTA graph-based solutions, for a fraction of the cost.

RAG向量检索知识图谱实体抽取

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