通过多粒度图流增强推理,提升抽象查询的召回与逻辑可靠性
FlowRAG: Synergizing Explicit Reasoning via Frequency-Aware Multi-Granularity Graph Flow

- 构建段落-摘要-句子-实体四层异构图,摘要节点作语义枢纽
- 双粒度激活融合摘要匹配与句级相似性,抗歧义与抽象查询干扰
- 基于词频加权的流动模块过滤噪声,生成可解释的推理路径
基于图的检索增强生成(GraphRAG)在知识密集型和多跳查询任务中表现优异;然而,现有方法主要依赖实体图结构并依赖隐式语义传播,常面临两个问题:(i) 当用户查询抽象且实体层面语义稀疏时召回不足;(ii) 多跳推理脆弱,噪声激活会破坏实体间转移,导致关系链断裂,结论不可靠。为此,我们提出FlowRAG,一种语义感知的检索框架,同时提升语义召回与显式推理能力。具体地,FlowRAG在段落、摘要、句子和实体四个层级构建异构图,其中摘要节点充当粗粒度语义枢纽。检索时,双粒度激活模块结合摘要-查询对齐与句级匹配,鲁棒地激活相关实体,应对改写与抽象。随后引入频率感知加权流动模块,通过段内词频加权实体-段落链接,剔除噪声连接,提取高置信度推理路径作为生成的显式逻辑骨架。大量实验表明,FlowRAG在复杂推理基准上达到当前最优性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) is effective for knowledge-intensive and multi-hop query tasks; however, many existing methods primarily seed entity-based graphs and rely on implicit semantic relevance propagation. This often (i) under-retrieves when user queries are abstract and semantically sparse at the entity level, and (ii) suffers from brittle multi-hop reasoning, where noisy activations can derail entity-to-entity transitions and corrupt the inferred relation chain, yielding unreliable conclusions. To this end, we propose \texttt{FlowRAG}, a semantic-aware retrieval framework that improves both semantic recall and explicit reasoning. Specifically, \texttt{FlowRAG} constructs a quad-level heterogeneous graph over passages, summaries, sentences, and entities, where summary nodes serve as a coarse semantic hub. At retrieval time, a dual-granularity activation module combines summary--query alignment with sentence-level matching to activate relevant entities under paraphrase and abstraction robustly. We then introduce a frequency-aware weighted flow module that routes relevance through entity--passage links weighted by within-passage term frequency, pruning noisy connections and extracting high-confidence reasoning paths as an explicit logic skeleton for generation. Extensive experiments show that \texttt{FlowRAG} obtains state-of-the-art performance on complex reasoning benchmarks.
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