Xingchen Han

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2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at text generation, but still struggle to produce accurate, long-form documents grounded in large knowledge bases. Existing “top-down” approaches—which plan before retrieving evidence—often result in fragmented or unfaithful content due to misalignment between the plan and available knowledge.

To overcome this, we introduce a “bottom-up” framework based on a “Retrieval-First for Knowledge, Clustering for Structure” strategy. Our method begins by establishing the “knowledge boundaries” of the source corpus through comprehensive retrieval, followed by unsupervised clustering to group evidence into distinct “knowledge clusters.” These clusters objectively inform a hierarchical outline and subsequent text generation, ensuring strict adherence to the source and significantly reducing hallucination.

Experimental results on both 14B- and 32B-parameter models demonstrate that our method achieves performance comparable to or exceeding state-of-the-art baselines, and is expected to demonstrate unique advantages in knowledge-constrained scenarios that demand high fidelity and structural coherence. Our work presents an effective paradigm for generating reliable, structured, long-form documents, paving the way for more robust LLM applications in high-stakes, knowledge-intensive domains.