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| author | Meng, Renwei |
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| contents | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factual grounding, yet most systems rely on flat chunk retrieval and provide limited control over multi-step synthesis. We propose an Explainable Innovation Engine that upgrades the knowledge unit from text chunks to methods-as-nodes. The engine maintains a weighted method provenance tree for traceable derivations and a hierarchical clustering abstraction tree for efficient top-down navigation. At inference time, a strategy agent selects explicit synthesis operators (e.g., induction, deduction, analogy), composes new method nodes, and records an auditable trajectory. A verifier-scorer layer then prunes low-quality candidates and writes validated nodes back to support continual growth. Expert evaluation across six domains and multiple backbones shows consistent gains over a vanilla baseline, with the largest improvements on derivation-heavy settings, and ablations confirm the complementary roles of provenance backtracking and pruning. These results suggest a practical path toward controllable, explainable, and verifiable innovation in agentic RAG systems. Code is available at the project GitHub repository https://github.com/xiaolu-666113/Dual-Tree-Agent-RAG. |
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| spellingShingle | Explainable Innovation Engine: Dual-Tree Agent-RAG with Methods-as-Nodes and Verifiable Write-Back Meng, Renwei Artificial Intelligence Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factual grounding, yet most systems rely on flat chunk retrieval and provide limited control over multi-step synthesis. We propose an Explainable Innovation Engine that upgrades the knowledge unit from text chunks to methods-as-nodes. The engine maintains a weighted method provenance tree for traceable derivations and a hierarchical clustering abstraction tree for efficient top-down navigation. At inference time, a strategy agent selects explicit synthesis operators (e.g., induction, deduction, analogy), composes new method nodes, and records an auditable trajectory. A verifier-scorer layer then prunes low-quality candidates and writes validated nodes back to support continual growth. Expert evaluation across six domains and multiple backbones shows consistent gains over a vanilla baseline, with the largest improvements on derivation-heavy settings, and ablations confirm the complementary roles of provenance backtracking and pruning. These results suggest a practical path toward controllable, explainable, and verifiable innovation in agentic RAG systems. Code is available at the project GitHub repository https://github.com/xiaolu-666113/Dual-Tree-Agent-RAG. |
| title | Explainable Innovation Engine: Dual-Tree Agent-RAG with Methods-as-Nodes and Verifiable Write-Back |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09192 |