【论文笔记】HybridRAG: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Vector Retrieval Augmented Generation for Efficie

论文信息

论文题目:HybridRAG: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Vector Retrieval Augmented Generation for Efficient Information Extraction
论文作者:Bhaskarjit Sarmah - NVIDA
论文链接:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.04948
文章领域:RAG, Knowledge Graph,


研究背景与动机

问题背景

  1. 金融文档的复杂性: 财报电话会议记录、新闻文章等非结构化数据包含专业术语、多格式数据和复杂上下文关系,传统方法难以有效提取信息。

  2. LLM的局限性: 预训练大语言模型(LLM)在领域外数据上易产生“幻觉”(Hallucination),且无法处理金融文档中的层次化结构和动态更新内容。

  3. 现有RAG技术的不足:

    • VectorRAG: 基于向量数据库的段落分块检索可能丢失关键上下文,尤其在结构化信息(如财务报表)中表现欠佳。

    • GraphRAG: 基于知识图谱的检索擅长实体关系推理,但在抽象问答(无显式实体提及)中效果较差。


研究动机

开发一种混合框架(HybridRAG),通过结合VectorRAG的语义检索能力和GraphRAG的结构化推理能力,提升金融文档问答系统的准确性和鲁棒性。


现有技术对比

方法优点缺点
VectorRAG长上下文支持,适合语义相似性检索忽略结构化关系,检索精度受限
GraphRAG结构化推理,实体关系明确依赖显式实体,抽象问答能力弱

本文贡献

  1. HybridRAG框架: 首次提出结合VectorRAG与GraphRAG的方法,通过上下文拼接实现互补。

  2. 金融领域专用数据集: 构建基于Nifty 50公司财报电话记录的问答数据集(含400对真实问答),填补公开数据空白。

  3. 系统性评估: 引入多维度指标(Faithfulness、Answer Relevance等),分离检索与生成阶段的性能分析。


HybridRAG 框架

HybridRAG分为三个核心模块:

  1. VectorRAG:

    • 文档处理: 使用递归字符分块(1024字符,无重叠),通过OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002生成向量,存储于Pinecone数据库。
    • 检索与生成: 基于LangChain框架,检索Top-4相关段落,输入GPT-3.5-Turbo生成答案。
  2. GraphRAG:

    • 知识图谱构建:
      • 知识抽取: 两阶段LLM链(内容精炼+信息提取),识别实体(如公司、财务指标)及关系(如“公司-收入-季度”)。
      • 知识优化: 实体消歧、知识融合,存储为三元组(节点11405,边13883)。
    • 检索与生成: 基于NetworkX图遍历(深度优先搜索,深度=1),结合GPT-3.5-Turbo生成答案。
  3. HybridRAG:

    • 上下文拼接: 将VectorRAG和GraphRAG的检索结果按顺序拼接,输入LLM生成最终答案。

关键技术细节

  • 知识图谱构建的提示工程: 通过定制化提示模板生成结构化三元组(格式:[h, type, r, o, type, metadata]),增强实体关系表达。
  • 元数据增强: 在VectorRAG和GraphRAG中显式添加文档元数据(如公司名称、季度),提升检索相关性。

实验设计与评估

数据集

  • 来源: 印度Nifty 50指数成分股2023年Q1财报电话记录(50家公司,约60,000词/文档)。

  • 问答对: 人工标注400对真实问答,覆盖基础设施、医疗、金融等多个领域。

评估指标

指标定义计算方式
Faithfulness生成答案与上下文的支持程度支持陈述数 / 总陈述数
Answer Relevance答案与问题的相关性(非事实性)生成问题与原问题的余弦相似度均值
Context PrecisionTop-K检索结果中相关段落占比加权精确率(基于段落排序)
Context Recall真实答案句子在检索结果中的覆盖率覆盖句子数 / 总句子数

实验配置

  • 模型: GPT-3.5-Turbo(Temperature=0)。
  • 工具: LangChain、Pinecone、NetworkX、RAGAS评估框架。

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结果分析

性能对比

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关键发现

  1. HybridRAG综合最优: 在Faithfulness和Answer Relevance上表现最佳,且Context Recall达1.0,表明其检索全面性。
  2. GraphRAG的结构化优势: Context Precision最高(0.96),验证知识图谱在精准检索中的价值。
  3. HybridRAG的权衡: 因拼接上下文引入噪声,Context Precision略低(0.79),但生成质量显著提升。

结论与未来工作

HybridRAG通过融合向量检索与知识图谱,显著提升了金融文档问答系统的性能,尤其在复杂信息提取任务中表现突出。

未来方向

  1. 多模态扩展: 整合数值数据(如财务报表表格)与文本信息。
  2. 动态知识更新: 适应金融市场的实时数据流。
  3. 评估指标优化: 开发更细粒度的金融领域评估标准(如数值准确性)。

潜在问题

  1. 上下文拼接策略: 简单的顺序拼接可能导致LLM偏向后段内容(如GraphRAG部分),需探索更优的融合机制(如加权或注意力机制)。
  2. 知识图谱维护成本: 金融数据的动态性要求持续更新图谱,可能增加计算和存储开销。
  3. 泛化能力验证: 实验仅限金融领域,需在更多领域(如医疗、法律)验证有效性。
  4. 长上下文生成: HybridRAG输入上下文较长(Vector+Graph),可能超出LLM的窗口限制,需研究高效压缩方法。

参考资料

1.更强的RAG:向量数据库和知识图谱的结合
合集 https://www.cnblogs.com/hohoa/p/18456986

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