UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses

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Autores principales: Łajewska, Weronika, Kostric, Ivica, Iturra-Bocaz, Gabriel, Arustashvili, Mariam, Balog, Krisztian
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author Łajewska, Weronika
Kostric, Ivica
Iturra-Bocaz, Gabriel
Arustashvili, Mariam
Balog, Krisztian
author_facet Łajewska, Weronika
Kostric, Ivica
Iturra-Bocaz, Gabriel
Arustashvili, Mariam
Balog, Krisztian
contents Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces challenges related to factual correctness, source attribution, and response completeness. The LiveRAG Challenge hosted at SIGIR'25 aims to advance RAG research using a fixed corpus and a shared, open-source LLM. We propose a modular pipeline that operates on information nuggets-minimal, atomic units of relevant information extracted from retrieved documents. This multistage pipeline encompasses query rewriting, passage retrieval and reranking, nugget detection and clustering, cluster ranking and summarization, and response fluency enhancement. This design inherently promotes grounding in specific facts, facilitates source attribution, and ensures maximum information inclusion within length constraints. In this challenge, we extend our focus to also address the retrieval component of RAG, building upon our prior work on multi-faceted query rewriting. Furthermore, for augmented generation, we concentrate on improving context curation capabilities, maximizing the breadth of information covered in the response while ensuring pipeline efficiency. Our results show that combining original queries with a few sub-query rewrites boosts recall, while increasing the number of documents used for reranking and generation beyond a certain point reduces effectiveness, without improving response quality.
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spellingShingle UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Łajewska, Weronika
Kostric, Ivica
Iturra-Bocaz, Gabriel
Arustashvili, Mariam
Balog, Krisztian
Information Retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces challenges related to factual correctness, source attribution, and response completeness. The LiveRAG Challenge hosted at SIGIR'25 aims to advance RAG research using a fixed corpus and a shared, open-source LLM. We propose a modular pipeline that operates on information nuggets-minimal, atomic units of relevant information extracted from retrieved documents. This multistage pipeline encompasses query rewriting, passage retrieval and reranking, nugget detection and clustering, cluster ranking and summarization, and response fluency enhancement. This design inherently promotes grounding in specific facts, facilitates source attribution, and ensures maximum information inclusion within length constraints. In this challenge, we extend our focus to also address the retrieval component of RAG, building upon our prior work on multi-faceted query rewriting. Furthermore, for augmented generation, we concentrate on improving context curation capabilities, maximizing the breadth of information covered in the response while ensuring pipeline efficiency. Our results show that combining original queries with a few sub-query rewrites boosts recall, while increasing the number of documents used for reranking and generation beyond a certain point reduces effectiveness, without improving response quality.
title UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22210