Heyoung Yang
Author directory2026
Source-Aware Memory Retrieval across Engineering Standards
Sung Tae Yoo | Heyoung Yang
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA 2026)
Sung Tae Yoo | Heyoung Yang
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA 2026)
Engineering design and quality review often require evidence from technical standards issued by multiple organizations. In a limited context window, partial evidence is often included, and relevance-based retrieval results can become biased toward sources with a large volume of documents, leaving other necessary sources unrepresented. We implemented a deterministic source-aware retrieval layer that identifies required source groups, retrieves candidates through source-conditioned channels, and prioritizes one candidate from each channel. We also evaluated a configuration that uses within-channel cross-encoder reranking to select that candidate. Evaluation used 15 technical standards, 72 evaluation questions, and 162 annotated evidence locations, with k set to 5 for all methods. Required-source coverage was 61.5% for dense retrieval and 78.6% for cross-encoder reranking, whereas both source-aware methods achieved 100%. Source-aware reranked channel quota achieved an evidence recall of 46.0% and retrieved all required evidence for 27.8% of questions, compared with 41.8% and 23.6% for cross-encoder reranking and 32.1% and 15.3% for dense retrieval. Within the source-aware design, within-channel reranking increased mean reciprocal rank from 0.445 to 0.545. These results support separating required-source coverage from evidence ranking in bounded-context retrieval for domain-specific agent memory.