EHRAG: Bridging Semantic Gaps in Lightweight GraphRAG via Hybrid Hypergraph Construction and Retrieval

arXiv:2604.17458v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) enhances LLMs by structuring corpus into graphs to facilitate multi-hop reasoning. While recent lightweight approaches reduce indexing costs by leveraging Named Entity Recognition (NER), they rely strictly on structural co-occurrence, failing to capture latent semantic connections between disjoint entities. To address this, we propose EHRAG, a lightweight RAG framework that constructs a hypergraph capturing both structure and semantic level relationships, employing a hybrid structural-semantic retrieval mechanism. Specifically, EHRAG constructs structural hyperedges based on sentence-level co-occurrence with lightweight entity extraction and semantic hyperedges by clustering entity text embeddings, ensuring the hypergraph encompasses both structural and semantic information. For retrieval, EHRAG performs a structure-semantic hybrid diffusion with topic-aware scoring and personalized pagerank (PPR) refinement to identify the top-k relevant documents. Experiments on four datasets show that EHRAG outperforms state-of-the-art baselines while maintaining linear indexing complexity and zero token consumption for construction. Code is available at https://github.com/yfsong00/EHRAG.

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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-04-22