Hierarchical Memory Organization for Wikipedia Generation

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Main Authors: Yu, Eugene J., Zhu, Dawei, Song, Yifan, Wong, Xiangyu, Zhang, Jiebin, Shi, Wenxuan, Li, Xiaoguang, Liu, Qun, Li, Sujian
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Published: 2025
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author Yu, Eugene J.
Zhu, Dawei
Song, Yifan
Wong, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jiebin
Shi, Wenxuan
Li, Xiaoguang
Liu, Qun
Li, Sujian
author_facet Yu, Eugene J.
Zhu, Dawei
Song, Yifan
Wong, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jiebin
Shi, Wenxuan
Li, Xiaoguang
Liu, Qun
Li, Sujian
contents Generating Wikipedia articles autonomously is a challenging task requiring the integration of accurate, comprehensive, and well-structured information from diverse sources. This paper introduces the Memory Organization-based Generation (MOG) framework, a novel approach to address these challenges by leveraging a hierarchical memory architecture. MOG extracts fine-grained memory units from web documents, recursively organizes them into a Wikipedia-style hierarchical structure, and uses this structure to guide the generation process. This ensures alignment between memory and the article outline, improving both informativeness and verifiability while minimizing hallucinations. Additionally, a citation module is implemented to enhance traceability by linking every generated sentence to specific memory units. Evaluations on our newly created WikiStart dataset demonstrate that MOG outperforms baseline methods in producing informative and reliable articles, making it particularly robust in real-world scenarios.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Memory Organization for Wikipedia Generation
Yu, Eugene J.
Zhu, Dawei
Song, Yifan
Wong, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jiebin
Shi, Wenxuan
Li, Xiaoguang
Liu, Qun
Li, Sujian
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Generating Wikipedia articles autonomously is a challenging task requiring the integration of accurate, comprehensive, and well-structured information from diverse sources. This paper introduces the Memory Organization-based Generation (MOG) framework, a novel approach to address these challenges by leveraging a hierarchical memory architecture. MOG extracts fine-grained memory units from web documents, recursively organizes them into a Wikipedia-style hierarchical structure, and uses this structure to guide the generation process. This ensures alignment between memory and the article outline, improving both informativeness and verifiability while minimizing hallucinations. Additionally, a citation module is implemented to enhance traceability by linking every generated sentence to specific memory units. Evaluations on our newly created WikiStart dataset demonstrate that MOG outperforms baseline methods in producing informative and reliable articles, making it particularly robust in real-world scenarios.
title Hierarchical Memory Organization for Wikipedia Generation
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23393