PreQRAG -- Classify and Rewrite for Enhanced RAG

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17493v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:02:05 GMT
• Title: PreQRAG -- Classify and Rewrite for Enhanced RAG
• Authors: Damian Martinez, Catalina Riano, Hui Fang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce PreQRAG, a Retrieval Augmented Generation architecture designed to improve retrieval and generation quality.<n>PreQRAG incorporates a pipeline that first classifies each input question as either single-document or multi-document type.<n>For single-document questions, we employ question rewriting techniques to improve retrieval precision and generation relevance.<n>For multi-document questions, we decompose complex queries into focused sub-questions that can be processed more effectively.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents the submission of the UDInfo team to the SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge. We introduce PreQRAG, a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture designed to improve retrieval and generation quality through targeted question preprocessing. PreQRAG incorporates a pipeline that first classifies each input question as either single-document or multi-document type. For single-document questions, we employ question rewriting techniques to improve retrieval precision and generation relevance. For multi-document questions, we decompose complex queries into focused sub-questions that can be processed more effectively by downstream components. This classification and rewriting strategy improves the RAG performance. Experimental evaluation of the LiveRAG Challenge dataset demonstrates the effectiveness of our question-type-aware architecture, with PreQRAG achieving the preliminary second place in Session 2 of the LiveRAG challenge.

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