arXiv:2608.12335cs.CLcs.MM2026-08

针对财报问答,构建分层多模态检索增强框架,精准定位文本表格证据。

HC-RAG: Evidence-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Heterogeneous Financial Filings

论文配图:HC-RAG: Evidence-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Heterogeneous Financial Filings
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  • 按文件结构建图,分层检索文档-章节-单元路径
  • 支持计算、趋势、事实、对比四类意图的证据路由
  • 在跨文档与表格相关问题上显著优于现有模型

对年度报告进行金融问答不仅需要语义相似性匹配,还需识别公司与财年、定位标准披露章节、整合文本与表格证据,并验证答案真实性。现有RAG系统通常将长篇报告扁平化为无序片段,忽视财务报告的类型化结构,且采用固定文本-表格融合策略,不考虑查询意图。为此,我们提出HC-RAG:一种面向证据中心的分层跨模态检索增强生成框架。该框架将文件组织为包含文档、章节、文本单元、表格单元和元数据节点的类型化财务证据图,通过文档-章节-单元路径检索证据,统一文本与表格在共享检索空间中的对齐,并根据四种语义意图(计算、趋势、事实、对比)路由证据。我们进一步构建了Multi-Doc-2025基准,包含来自87家标普500公司179份SEC 10-K文件(2022–2024财年)的2,327个专家标注问答对,附有意图、难度及结构证据标签。在公开金融问答基准和Multi-Doc-2025上的实验表明,HC-RAG在答案质量与证据定位上均优于基线,尤其在长文档、表格相关及跨文档场景表现突出。其性能超越RAPTOR 6.6 F1点,优于GraphRAG 10.9 F1点。证据级分析与消融实验显示,提升主要源于更准确的章节定位、表格对齐、跨文档证据聚合以及意图感知的文本-表格路由。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Financial question answering over annual reports requires more than retrieving semantically similar passages. It often involves identifying relevant companies and fiscal years, locating standardized filing sections, collecting textual and tabular evidence, and checking answers against the original documents. Existing RAG systems, however, usually flatten long filings into unordered chunks, pay limited attention to the typed structure of financial reports, and use fixed text-table fusion strategies without considering query intent. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{HC-RAG}, a hierarchical cross-modal retrieval-augmented generation framework for evidence-centric financial QA. HC-RAG organizes filings into a typed financial evidence graph with documents, sections, text units, table units, and metadata nodes. It retrieves evidence through document-section-unit paths, aligns textual and tabular evidence in a shared retrieval space, and routes evidence according to four semantic intents: calculation, trend, fact, and comparison. We further introduce \textbf{Multi-Doc-2025}, a benchmark containing 2,327 expert-verified QA pairs from 179 SEC 10-K filings of 87 S\&P 500 companies across fiscal years 2022--2024, with labels for intent, difficulty, and structural evidence attributes. Experiments on public financial QA benchmarks and Multi-Doc-2025 show that HC-RAG improves both answer quality and evidence localization, especially in long-document, table-related, and cross-document settings. HC-RAG outperforms RAPTOR by 6.6 F1 points on DocFinQA and GraphRAG by 10.9 F1 points on Multi-Doc-2025. Evidence-level analysis and ablation studies show that the improvements mainly come from more accurate section localization, table grounding, cross-document evidence aggregation, and intent-aware text-table routing.

金融问答检索增强多模态证据定位

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