Shuxuan Lian
Author directory2026
Towards Holistic Knowledge Retrieval for Augmented Generation: Integrating Graph-Grounded and Query-Aligned Knowledge
Weidong Zhang | Zhe Wang | Kewen Wang | Haifeng Guo | Shuxuan Lian | Weizhi Du
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Weidong Zhang | Zhe Wang | Kewen Wang | Haifeng Guo | Shuxuan Lian | Weizhi Du
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to access external knowledge during generation, improving factual reliability without parameter retraining. However, existing methods still struggle to retrieve evidence that is both relevant and complete. Standard RAG may miss semantic associations among related chunks. Graph-based RAG addresses this issue by modeling entity relations, but it is often query-agnostic. Question-format RAG further improves query matching by converting facts into Question-Answer (QA) pairs, but it cannot guarantee semantic association and introduces knowledge fragmentation. To address these issues, we propose HolisticRAG, a framework integrating graph-grounded and query-aligned knowledge for holistic knowledge RAG. In the offline stage, HolisticRAG constructs a knowledge representation to preserve semantic associations while reducing query-agnostic retrieval. In the online stage, it applies holistic knowledge clustering to merge all fragmented evidence and adaptively retrieve sufficient supporting facts. Experiments demonstrate the effiectiveness of HolisticRAG.