Experiments demonstrate that PAGE-RAG achieves competitive answer quality while improving retrieval efficiency and knowledge reliability, highlighting the importance of projection-aware graph modeling, adaptive retrieval, and explicit knowledge boundary control for trustworthy GraphRAG systems.
Abstract
GraphRAG improves long-document question answering by introducing structured representations beyond conventional retrieval. However, automatically constructed graphs are inherently incomplete projections of source documents, and treating them as independent knowledge sources may lead to unreliable retrieval and generation. We propose PAGE-RAG, a projection-aware adaptive graph retrieval framework for reliable long-document question answering. PAGE-RAG views graph structures as semantic skeletons that organize and navigate document knowledge, rather than replacing the original knowledge source. Based on this perspective, PAGE-RAG introduces a task-adaptive retrieval routing strategy that dynamically selects appropriate retrieval behaviors according to query requirements. Furthermore, PAGE-RAG incorporates strict knowledge boundary control, ensuring that generated responses remain grounded within available evidence and abstaining from unsupported information beyond the accessible knowledge scope. Experiments demonstrate that PAGE-RAG achieves competitive answer quality while improving retrieval efficiency and knowledge reliability, highlighting the importance of projection-aware graph modeling, adaptive retrieval, and explicit knowledge boundary control for trustworthy GraphRAG systems. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/CXY0112/PAGE-RAG.
Multi-hop question answering in retrieval-augmented gener?ation (RAG) often benefits from retrieving beyond the few candidates that will finally be read: narrow retrieval can miss an indispensable hop, while expanded retrieval introduces topical distractors. This challenge is not tied to a particu?lar knowledge-base format. Candidate pools may come from standalone retrievers, standard RAG backends, or graph-based retrieval pipelines. What is needed is a query-aware selection layer that can use relational structure to filter candidates be?fore generation. PAGE-RAG addresses this setting by using a graph as a temporary selection structure, rather than assum?ing a graph-structured knowledge base. It builds a query-local graph over retrieved candidates, records why candidates are connected, and treats each connection as a support hypothe?sis rather than support itself. We identify the resulting failure mode as a connectivity-support gap: connected candidates do not necessarily support the answer. We propose PAGE-RAG, a Provenance-Aware Graph Evidence promotion method that scores candidate paths with relevance, source-tracing meta?data, specificity, hubness, noise, and coherence signals, and applies minimal sufficient selection to promote supporting facts into a compact reader context. PAGE-RAG can serve as a complete retrieval-to-reading pipeline, and the same promo?tion stage can be inserted after existing retrieval or RAG sys?tems without replacing their upstream retrieval logic. Across three multi-hop QA benchmarks under the same final bud?get, PAGE-RAG improves support F1 and answer F1 by 10.4 and 3.3 points on a weighted average over a strong retriever. As a plug-in, PAGE-RAG further improves all reported RAG backends, including reasoning-oriented, compression-based, graph-based, and document/chunk-level systems.
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