Graph-Aware Late Chunking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Biomedical Literature

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22633v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:22:58 GMT
• Title: Graph-Aware Late Chunking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Biomedical Literature
• Abstract summary: GraLC-RAG is a framework that unifies late chunking with graph-aware structural intelligence.<n>We evaluate six strategies on 2,359 IMRaD-filtered Central articles using 2,033 cross-section questions.
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• Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for biomedical literature are typically evaluated using ranking metrics like Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR), which measure how well the system identifies the single most relevant chunk. We argue that for full-text scientific documents, this paradigm is incomplete: it rewards retrieval precision while ignoring retrieval breadth -- the ability to surface evidence from across a document's structural sections. We propose GraLC-RAG, a framework that unifies late chunking with graph-aware structural intelligence, introducing structure-aware chunk boundary detection, UMLS knowledge graph infusion, and graph-guided hybrid retrieval. We evaluate six strategies on 2,359 IMRaD-filtered PubMed Central articles using 2,033 cross-section questions and two metric families: standard ranking metrics (MRR, Recall@k) and structural coverage metrics (SecCov@k, CS Recall). Our results expose a sharp divergence: content-similarity methods achieve the highest MRR (0.517) but always retrieve from a single section, while structure-aware methods retrieve from up to 15.6x more sections. Generation experiments show that KG-infused retrieval narrows the answer-quality gap to delta-F1 = 0.009 while maintaining 4.6x section diversity. These findings demonstrate that standard metrics systematically undervalue structural retrieval and that closing the multi-section synthesis gap is a key open problem for biomedical RAG.

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