arXiv:2606.28447cs.IRcs.AI2026-06

构建有向语义梯度图,让检索从抽象到具体逐步聚焦。

SemFlowRAG: Directed Semantic Flow from Abstraction to Evidence for Complex Reasoning

论文配图:SemFlowRAG: Directed Semantic Flow from Abstraction to Evidence for Complex Reasoning
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 将知识图谱重构为数据驱动的有向语义梯度图
  • 在多跳问答上提升检索与推理准确率,缓解概率黑洞问题
  • 适合复杂推理任务的模型优化,尤其关注语义层级建模

基于知识图谱的检索增强生成(RAG)在复杂多跳推理任务中表现优异。然而,现有方法通常依赖扁平、无向的拓扑结构,在检索过程中概率流常被高阶抽象概念节点(称作“概率黑洞”)困住,导致语义漂移与噪声积累。为此,我们提出SemFlowRAG框架,将原始检索空间重构为适应语料的语义梯度图。该数据驱动的自组织机制使层次结构自然涌现,捕捉语料内在语义粒度,抑制结构噪声。通过量化实体关联段落嵌入方差以衡量语义抽象度,将静态无向边转化为有向语义约束。进一步设计了抽象度引导的有向PageRank算法,强制检索轨迹沿“高至低语义抽象度”梯度推进,实现逐层证据收敛,平稳引导从抽象概念到具体文档证据的检索过程。在多个复杂问答数据集上的大量实验表明,SemFlowRAG有效缓解了‘概率黑洞’问题,在检索与下游推理性能上均优于现有基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhanced by Knowledge Graphs has shown promise in complex multi-hop reasoning tasks. However, existing graph-based retrieval methods typically rely on flat, undirected topologies. During the retrieval process, the probability flow often gets trapped in high-degree abstract concept nodes which we define as ``probability black holes'', leading to semantic drift and noise accumulation. To address this, we propose SemFlowRAG, a framework that reconstructs the flat retrieval space into a corpus-adaptive semantic gradient graph. This data-driven self-organization enables a hierarchical structure to emerge naturally from the data distribution, capturing the intrinsic semantic granularity of the corpus to suppress structural noise. By quantifying the semantic abstractness of entities through the embedding variance of their associated passages, we transform static undirected edges into directed semantic constraints. Furthermore, we design an abstractness-guided directed PageRank algorithm that forces the retrieval trajectory to follow a ``high-to-low semantic abstractness'' gradient. This mechanism ensures layer-by-layer evidence convergence, smoothly guiding the retrieval process from abstract concepts to specific document evidence. Extensive experiments on complex QA datasets demonstrate that SemFlowRAG effectively mitigates the ``probability black holes'' issue, outperforming existing baselines in both retrieval and downstream reasoning performance.

知识图谱检索增强多跳推理语义梯度

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