arXiv:2608.07006cs.CLcs.CV2026-08

检索更多证据未必更好,精选证据能显著提升视觉生成模型准确率

Does More Retrieved Evidence Help Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Diffusion Language Models?

  • 通过熵值筛选候选证据,只让有益信息进入生成器
  • 在5个视觉问答数据集上平均提升2.62%准确率
  • 适合追求高精度的多模态生成研究者使用

视觉检索增强生成(RAG)通常通过扩大检索证据集来提升答案覆盖范围,隐含假设是所有检索到的信息都应传递给生成器。我们发现这对扩散语言模型(DLMs)不成立:增加检索页数虽提升答案页召回率,但无条件传递全部页面反而降低答案准确率,主要因语义冲突。潜源分析揭示,这是由于并行去噪过程中源一致性损失导致位置级提议混合不兼容视觉源,生成无效答案。我们还发现此类干扰在第一步答案块分布中已可识别,从而可在解码前评估证据。为此提出无需训练的熵基候选过滤器(ECF):构建多粒度证据单元以减少冗余;利用空白控制块置信度与检索排名判断是否及如何引入额外证据。在三个多模态DLM和五个视觉QA基准上,ECF相较最强固定top-k输入平均提升2.62个百分点,且在LLaDA2.0-Uni上相比最佳无训练结果平均提升2.37个百分点。结果表明,视觉DLM-RAG的性能提升来自选择性证据接入,而非无差别扩展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Visual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) commonly expands the retrieved evidence set to improve answer-page coverage, implicitly assuming that all available evidence should be passed to the generator. We show that this assumption does not hold for diffusion language models (DLMs): retrieving more pages increases answer-page recall, whereas unconditionally passing all retrieved pages to the generator often reduces answer accuracy, primarily because of semantic conflict. A latent-source analysis explains this mismatch through source-coherence loss in parallel denoising, where position-wise proposals can combine incompatible visual sources into unsupported answers. We further find that such interference is already visible in the first-step answer-block distribution, making it possible to assess evidence before decoding. To preserve retrieval coverage while limiting harmful visual exposure, we propose the Entropy-Based Candidate Filter (ECF), a training-free evidence-admission framework. To reduce irrelevant content within individual candidates, ECF constructs multi-granularity evidence units; to identify beneficial additional evidence, it uses blank-controlled block confidence and retrieval rank to determine whether and which candidate should enter the final context. Across three multimodal DLMs and five visual QA benchmarks, ECF improves answer accuracy by 2.62 percentage points on average over the strongest fixed top-$k$ input and, with LLaDA2.0-Uni, by 2.37 percentage points on average over the best competing training-free result for each dataset. These results show that broader retrieval benefits visual DLM-RAG through selective evidence admission rather than unconditional evidence expansion. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/wjkuser/ECF.

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