HetaRAG: Hybrid Deep Retrieval-Augmented Generation across Heterogeneous Data Stores

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21336v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:12:59 GMT
• Title: HetaRAG: Hybrid Deep Retrieval-Augmented Generation across Heterogeneous Data Stores
• Authors: Guohang Yan, Yue Zhang, Pinlong Cai, Ding Wang, Song Mao, Hongwei Zhang, Yaoze Zhang, Hairong Zhang, Xinyu Cai, Botian Shi,
• Abstract summary: HetaRAG is a hybrid, deep-retrieval augmented generation framework that orchestrates cross-modal evidence from heterogeneous data stores.<n>HetaRAG unifies vector indices, knowledge graphs, full-text engines, and structured databases into a single retrieval plane.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a dominant paradigm for mitigating knowledge hallucination and staleness in large language models (LLMs) while preserving data security. By retrieving relevant evidence from private, domain-specific corpora and injecting it into carefully engineered prompts, RAG delivers trustworthy responses without the prohibitive cost of fine-tuning. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are text-only and often rely on a single storage backend, most commonly a vector database. In practice, this monolithic design suffers from unavoidable trade-offs: vector search captures semantic similarity yet loses global context; knowledge graphs excel at relational precision but struggle with recall; full-text indexes are fast and exact yet semantically blind; and relational engines such as MySQL provide strong transactional guarantees but no semantic understanding. We argue that these heterogeneous retrieval paradigms are complementary, and propose a principled fusion scheme to orchestrate them synergistically, mitigating the weaknesses of any single modality. In this work we introduce HetaRAG, a hybrid, deep-retrieval augmented generation framework that orchestrates cross-modal evidence from heterogeneous data stores. We plan to design a system that unifies vector indices, knowledge graphs, full-text engines, and structured databases into a single retrieval plane, dynamically routing and fusing evidence to maximize recall, precision, and contextual fidelity. To achieve this design goal, we carried out preliminary explorations and constructed an initial RAG pipeline; this technical report provides a brief overview. The partial code is available at https://github.com/KnowledgeXLab/HetaRAG.

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