通过时间图谱融合证据,提升历史案件问答的推理能力。
TCAR-Gen: Temporal Graph Retrieval with Evidence Fusion for Knowledge-Grounded Generation

- 用查询感知图网络建模时间上下文,动态构建证据图谱。
- 在维多利亚罪案日记上达到0.3738的Recall@5,优于多种基线方法。
- 适合需要复杂推理与时间逻辑的历史文本问答场景。
检索增强生成系统在回答历史刑事案件叙事中的复杂问题时,面临时间推理和证据融合的挑战。现有方法或独立于查询语义进行检索,或无法一致整合多个证据源。我们提出时间上下文增强检索生成框架(TCAR-Gen),结合查询条件图神经网络、时间证据融合与树状链式推理,使答案生成基于检索到的证据。在维多利亚罪案日记基准上,TCAR-Gen 在七类查询(包括多跳推理与反事实问题)中,取得0.3738的Recall@5,优于Vanilla RAG、Temporal RAG、GraphRAG-C与GraphRAG-T。消融实验表明,上下文图谱、时间惩罚机制与查询条件性是关键组件。跨五种语言模型(从GPT-OSS 20B到TinyLlama 1.1B)评估显示,TCAR-Gen在小规模模型下仍保持稳健的检索覆盖,但生成质量随模型容量下降显著降低。研究证明,显式时间建模与多分支证据融合对知识驱动语料上的忠实推理问答至关重要。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Retrieval-augmented generation systems struggle with temporal reasoning and evidence fusion when answering complex questions over historical criminal case narratives. Existing approaches either retrieve independently of query semantics or fail to integrate multiple evidence sources coherently. We propose Temporal Context Augmented Retrieval Generation (TCAR-Gen), a framework that combines query-conditioned graph neural networks, temporal evidence fusion, and chain-of-trees reasoning to ground answer generation in retrieved evidence. On the Victorian Crime Diaries benchmark, TCAR-Gen achieves 0.3738 Recall@5, outperforming Vanilla RAG, Temporal RAG, GraphRAG-C, and GraphRAG-T across seven query types including multi-hop reasoning and counterfactual questions. Ablation studies reveal that the context graph, temporal penalty mechanism, and query conditioning are critical components. Cross-model evaluation across five language model (GPT-OSS 20B to TinyLlama 1.1B) demonstrates that TCAR-Gen maintains robust retrieval coverage at smaller model scales, though generation quality degrades substantially with reduced model capacity. Our work shows that explicit temporal modelling and multi-branch evidence fusion are essential for faithful, reasoning-intensive question answering over knowledge-grounded corpora.
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