A Hybrid RAG System with Comprehensive Enhancement on Complex Reasoning
This work addresses the problem of enhancing reasoning and reducing hallucinations in RAG systems for AI applications, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing RAG frameworks.
The paper tackles improving complex reasoning in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems by introducing a hybrid system with optimizations like refined text chunks, attribute predictors, and knowledge extractors, resulting in significant accuracy improvements and reduced error rates on the CRAG dataset.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a framework enabling large language models (LLMs) to enhance their accuracy and reduce hallucinations by integrating external knowledge bases. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid RAG system enhanced through a comprehensive suite of optimizations that significantly improve retrieval quality, augment reasoning capabilities, and refine numerical computation ability. We refined the text chunks and tables in web pages, added attribute predictors to reduce hallucinations, conducted LLM Knowledge Extractor and Knowledge Graph Extractor, and finally built a reasoning strategy with all the references. We evaluated our system on the CRAG dataset through the Meta CRAG KDD Cup 2024 Competition. Both the local and online evaluations demonstrate that our system significantly enhances complex reasoning capabilities. In local evaluations, we have significantly improved accuracy and reduced error rates compared to the baseline model, achieving a notable increase in scores. In the meanwhile, we have attained outstanding results in online assessments, demonstrating the performance and generalization capabilities of the proposed system. The source code for our system is released in \url{https://gitlab.aicrowd.com/shizueyy/crag-new}.