AI & ML
From Chunks to Functional Evidence: Function-Aware Retrieval for EDA Documentation QA
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arXiv:2610.09361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to ground answers in documents. For complex technical documentation, however, the primary bottleneck is often not model reasoning but a mismatch between a query and the way knowledge is organized for retrieval. This mismatch is pronounced in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) documentation, where the information needed for an answer is scattered across heterogeneous yet tightly coupled artifacts. We therefore redesign the basic retrieval unit of RAG. Instead of operating on isolated chunks or binary relations, we collect typed artifacts into EDA functional units. Each unit is recorded as a hyperedge with links to its source chunks. We then train an encoder to align queries with functional units and combine unit retrieval with direct chunk retrieval. After mapping the selected units back to their sources, a unified reranker chooses the evidence given to the generator. On the newly constructed EDADocEval-QA dataset, our method improves ROUGE-L by 37.1% over Chunk RAG and 55.6% over the strongest graph baseline. On the public ORD-MMBench benchmark, it improves ROUGE-L by 30.0% over the strongest baseline. These results support function-aware evidence organization in the evaluated EDA documentation settings.
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