Multi-hop Retrieval-augmented Generation Method Fusing Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs and Dynamic Decomposition

Wei ZHOU , Hong-sheng LIN , Hai-peng LI , Lei LIU , Xin YANG

Science Technology and Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (13) : 5594 -5603.

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Science Technology and Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (13) : 5594-5603 DOI: 10.12404/j.issn.1671-1815.2503930
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Multi-hop Retrieval-augmented Generation Method Fusing Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs and Dynamic Decomposition
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Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods exhibit significant limitations in handling complex queries requiring multi-hop reasoning and global understanding, such as cross-chapter question answering in educational contexts. To address these issues, a graph-enhanced retrieval-augmented generation mechanism for multi-hop QA (GRAG-MH) was proposed. Firstly, entities and relations were extracted from the original documents to construct a basic knowledge graph. Then, summary nodes were generated for closely related entity groups, forming a hierarchical summary-enhanced knowledge graph. During query processing, complex questions were decomposed into sub-question sequences through dynamic question decomposition. Multi-hop neighbor expansion retrieval was performed using the summary-enhanced knowledge graph. Finally, the results from multiple reasoning paths were integrated via a self-consistency voting method. Experimental results demonstrate that GRAG-MH achieves F1 scores of 53.7% and 50.7% on the multi-hop QA benchmark datasets HotpotQA and 2WikiMultihopQA, respectively, outperforming traditional RAG methods by over 50%. By combining interpretable multi-path reasoning with hierarchical knowledge representation, the proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of QA systems.

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large language models / knowledge graphs / retrieval-augmented generation / multi-hop question answering

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Wei ZHOU, Hong-sheng LIN, Hai-peng LI, Lei LIU, Xin YANG. Multi-hop Retrieval-augmented Generation Method Fusing Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs and Dynamic Decomposition. Science Technology and Engineering, 2026, 26(13): 5594-5603 DOI:10.12404/j.issn.1671-1815.2503930

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