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New framework improves long-context AI by organizing document evidence

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Researchers have developed a new training-free framework called "\ours" that constructs a semantic hierarchy from full documents to improve question answering in long-context language models. This method organizes evidence by linking node descriptions to source spans, allowing for more focused context selection. When a query is provided, \ours uses structural-semantic scoring and lexical attribution to nominate relevant source nodes and their ancestors, preserving structural relations and local text. This approach has demonstrated an improvement in QA-F1 scores across multiple frontier models on LongBench tasks, while also significantly reducing the length of the answer context. AI

IMPACT This framework could enhance the efficiency and accuracy of long-context language models in information retrieval and question answering tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhe Xu, Tianhao Liao, Zhenqing Ling, Ying Shen, Yaliang Li, Daoyuan Chen ·

    Rethinking Retrieval in the Long-Context Era: Training-Free Semantic Trees for Adaptive Context Construction

    arXiv:2610.34146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language models can increasingly process entire documents, making full-context prompting a practical alternative to passage retrieval. However, greater capacity determines how much information a model can receive, but…

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