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Aug 2026
Improving Tree Traversal in Hierarchical RAG via Reasoning-Aware Approach with Interleaving Chain-of-Thought
It is suggested that step-wise CoT reasoning can improve node selection quality in hierarchical traversal, with gains most evident on standard-difficulty questions, indicating that the quality of the generated reasoning signal is a key bottleneck for further improvement.
Mukhamad Khafid Maassobirin, Wahyu Syaifullah J.S., Andri Fauzan Adziima
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