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STAIR (STructure Aware Information Retriever): A novel dataset and LLM based retriever for document structure augmentation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are improving at handling long context, but still suffer from "lost in the middle" problem. Thus, precise and accurate retrieval is important. Current retrievers chunk long context into length-based manageable chunks - in the process throwing away rich and informative semantic global structure in the corpus. We introduce a novel retrieval system STAIR that empowers an LLM to exploit global structure in a corpus such as a Table of Contents (ToC)

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