Xiao Yang
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2025
KERAG: Knowledge-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Advanced Question Answering
Yushi Sun | Kai Sun | Yifan Ethan Xu | Xiao Yang | Xin Luna Dong | Nan Tang | Lei Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Yushi Sun | Kai Sun | Yifan Ethan Xu | Xiao Yang | Xin Luna Dong | Nan Tang | Lei Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external data, with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offering crucial information for question answering. Traditional Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) methods rely on semantic parsing, which typically retrieves knowledge strictly necessary for answer generation, thus often suffer from low coverage due to rigid schema requirements and semantic ambiguity. We present KERAG, a novel KG-based RAG pipeline that enhances QA coverage by retrieving a broader subgraph likely to contain relevant information. Our retrieval-filtering-summarization approach, combined with fine-tuned LLMs for Chain-of-Thought reasoning on knowledge sub-graphs, reduces noises and improves QA for both simple and complex questions. Experiments demonstrate that KERAG surpasses state-of-the-art solutions by about 7% in quality and exceeds GPT-4o (Tool) by 10-21%.
PrismRAG: Boosting RAG Factuality with Distractor Resilience and Strategized Reasoning
Mohammad Kachuee | Teja Gollapudi | Minseok Kim | Yin Huang | Kai Sun | Xiao Yang | Jiaqi Wang | Nirav Shah | Yue Liu | Aaron Colak | Anuj Kumar | Wen-tau Yih | Xin Luna Dong
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Mohammad Kachuee | Teja Gollapudi | Minseok Kim | Yin Huang | Kai Sun | Xiao Yang | Jiaqi Wang | Nirav Shah | Yue Liu | Aaron Colak | Anuj Kumar | Wen-tau Yih | Xin Luna Dong
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) often falls short when retrieved context includes confusing semi-relevant passages, or when answering questions require deep contextual understanding and reasoning. We propose an efficient fine-tuning framework, called PrismRAG, that (i) trains the model with distractor-aware QA pairs mixing gold evidence with subtle distractor passages, and (ii) instills reasoning-centric habits that make the LLM plan, rationalize, and synthesize without relying on extensive human engineered instructions. Evaluated across 12 open-book RAG QA benchmarks spanning diverse application domains and scenarios, PrismRAG improves average factuality by 5.4%, outperforming state-of-the-art solutions. Our method is being deployed in production.