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arxiv: 2601.04377 · v5 · submitted 2026-01-07 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI· cs.LG

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Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Dongqi Liu , Hang Ding , Qiming Feng , Xurong Xie , Zhucun Xue , Chengjie Wang , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang
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keywords disco-ragdiscourse-aware retrievalrhetorical graphsdiscourse treesplanning blueprintretrieval-augmented generationquestion answeringdocument summarization
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Disco-RAG improves RAG by building discourse trees inside chunks and rhetorical graphs across chunks, then feeding both into a planning blueprint that conditions generation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Standard retrieval-augmented generation flattens retrieved passages and therefore struggles to combine evidence that is scattered across documents. Disco-RAG counters this by constructing intra-chunk discourse trees to expose local hierarchies and inter-chunk rhetorical graphs to expose cross-passage coherence relations. These two structures are merged into a single planning blueprint that steers the language model during answer or summary generation. On question-answering and long-document summarization benchmarks the method reaches state-of-the-art accuracy without any fine-tuning of the underlying model. The result indicates that explicit discourse modeling supplies the missing structural cue for synthesis of dispersed knowledge.

Core claim

Disco-RAG constructs intra-chunk discourse trees to capture local hierarchies and builds inter-chunk rhetorical graphs to model cross-passage coherence; these structures are jointly integrated into a planning blueprint that conditions generation, yielding state-of-the-art results on question answering and long-document summarization benchmarks without fine-tuning.

What carries the argument

The planning blueprint that receives intra-chunk discourse trees and inter-chunk rhetorical graphs and uses them to condition the generation step.

If this is right

  • Generation quality improves on tasks that require combining facts from multiple retrieved passages.
  • Long-document summarization gains coherence because cross-passage relations are explicitly modeled.
  • No parameter updates are required to obtain the reported gains.
  • The same blueprint can be applied to any retrieval-augmented pipeline that already returns multiple passages.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same discourse-construction step could be inserted into retrieval pipelines for dialogue or multi-hop reasoning without changing the base model.
  • If discourse parsers improve, the performance ceiling of Disco-RAG would rise automatically.
  • The planning blueprint may also reduce unsupported claims by forcing the model to respect explicit coherence links.

Load-bearing premise

Automatically built discourse trees and rhetorical graphs will correctly reflect the intended hierarchies and coherence relations in the retrieved passages.

What would settle it

An ablation that removes the discourse trees and rhetorical graphs from the planning blueprint and still obtains the same benchmark scores would falsify the claim that discourse injection drives the improvement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.04377 by Chengjie Wang, Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Jiangning Zhang, Jian Li, Qiming Feng, Xurong Xie, Yabiao Wang, Zhucun Xue.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison between standard RAG and Disco-RAG. While standard RAG retrieves isolated chunks without structural links, Disco-RAG organizes evidence into discourse structures (trees & graphs). Here, S denotes Satellite (the supplementary part), and N denotes Nucleus (the core part). proprietary data, or information requiring real-time updates (Chang et al., 2025; Lee et al., 2025b; Yue et al., 2025; Wang et … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The Disco-RAG pipeline: Starting from passage retrieval (providing context), then intra-chunk RST tree [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Performance comparison under varying chunk size (a), Top- [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Effect of structural perturbations on performance. Panels (a), (b), and (c) correspond to intra-chunk RST [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Case study comparing standard RAG and Disco-RAG on the query “When did The Lion King debut on Broadway?”. Our method captures both the preview and official opening as well as the later relocation, while standard RAG gives only a vague year-based answer [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Case study comparing standard RAG and our proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Case study showing how discourse relations affect generation under conflicting evidence. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Relation Definitions for Intra-chunk RST Tree Construction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Relation Definitions for Inter-chunk Rhetorical Graph Construction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Prompt for Intra-chunk RST Tree Construction. The relation definitions are provided in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Prompt for listwise discourse relation inference. The relation definitions are provided in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Prompt for Discourse-Driven Planning. Prompt for Full Context Generation You are an expert in question answering and text generation. Your task is to answer the user query using the provided full document as context. Inputs: 1. The user query. 2. The full document. Critical instructions: 1. The answer must directly address the user query. 2. Use the full document as the only source of factual claims. 3. I… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Prompt for full context generation used in our baseline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Prompt for standard RAG used in our baseline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Prompt for the retrieve-and-plan baseline used in our ablation study. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Prompt for the plan-and-retrieve baseline used in our ablation study. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Prompt for discourse marker inference used in the shallow discourse marker baseline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Prompt for Discourse-Guided RAG [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Guidelines presented to human raters for the SciNews dataset evaluation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_19.png] view at source ↗
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as an important means of enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, most existing RAG strategies treat retrieved passages in a flat and unstructured way, which prevents the model from capturing structural cues and constrains its ability to synthesize knowledge from dispersed evidence across documents. To overcome these limitations, we propose Disco-RAG, a discourse-aware framework that explicitly injects discourse signals into the generation process. Our method constructs intra-chunk discourse trees to capture local hierarchies and builds inter-chunk rhetorical graphs to model cross-passage coherence. These structures are jointly integrated into a planning blueprint that conditions the generation. Experiments on question answering and long-document summarization benchmarks show the efficacy of our approach. Disco-RAG achieves state-of-the-art results on the benchmarks without fine-tuning. These findings underscore the important role of discourse structure in advancing RAG systems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes Disco-RAG, a discourse-aware RAG framework that builds intra-chunk discourse trees to capture local hierarchies and inter-chunk rhetorical graphs to model cross-passage coherence relations; these structures are integrated into a planning blueprint that conditions LLM generation. The central claim is that this yields state-of-the-art performance on question-answering and long-document summarization benchmarks without any fine-tuning.

Significance. If the results are substantiated, the work would provide concrete evidence that explicit discourse modeling can improve evidence synthesis in RAG systems beyond flat concatenation, addressing a recognized limitation in current retrieval-augmented pipelines.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that Disco-RAG 'achieves state-of-the-art results on the benchmarks without fine-tuning' is presented without any reported numbers, baselines, datasets, or statistical significance tests, rendering the central empirical claim unevaluable.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: no details are supplied on the automatic discourse parser (model, training data, or F1 accuracy on the target domains), nor any error analysis of the resulting trees and graphs; given that standard discourse parsers typically achieve F1 well below 80%, this omission directly undermines attribution of any gains to discourse awareness.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript contains no ablation studies that isolate the contribution of the intra-chunk trees, inter-chunk graphs, or planning blueprint versus standard RAG retrieval volume or prompt length, so it is impossible to determine whether the reported improvements are load-bearing on the discourse components.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive review. We agree that the current manuscript requires additional concrete details to substantiate its claims and will revise accordingly. Below we address each major comment point by point.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that Disco-RAG 'achieves state-of-the-art results on the benchmarks without fine-tuning' is presented without any reported numbers, baselines, datasets, or statistical significance tests, rendering the central empirical claim unevaluable.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract is currently too high-level. In the revised version we will expand it to report specific performance metrics (e.g., exact accuracy/F1 or ROUGE scores), name the datasets and baselines, and note any statistical significance tests performed. This will make the SOTA claim directly verifiable while preserving the abstract's brevity. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: no details are supplied on the automatic discourse parser (model, training data, or F1 accuracy on the target domains), nor any error analysis of the resulting trees and graphs; given that standard discourse parsers typically achieve F1 well below 80%, this omission directly undermines attribution of any gains to discourse awareness.

    Authors: We acknowledge this gap. The revised manuscript will specify the exact discourse parser (model, training corpus such as PDTB or RST-DT), report its F1 scores on the evaluation domains, and add a dedicated error-analysis subsection that quantifies parsing errors and discusses their downstream effect on retrieval and generation quality. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the manuscript contains no ablation studies that isolate the contribution of the intra-chunk trees, inter-chunk graphs, or planning blueprint versus standard RAG retrieval volume or prompt length, so it is impossible to determine whether the reported improvements are load-bearing on the discourse components.

    Authors: We agree that ablations are essential. The revision will include systematic ablations that (i) disable intra-chunk trees, (ii) disable inter-chunk graphs, and (iii) disable the planning blueprint, each compared against standard RAG baselines that match retrieval volume and prompt length. These experiments will isolate the contribution of the discourse components. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; architectural proposal without self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper presents Disco-RAG as an empirical architectural framework that builds intra-chunk discourse trees and inter-chunk rhetorical graphs then feeds them into a planning blueprint for conditioning generation. No equations, parameter fittings, or mathematical derivations appear in the provided text that would reduce any claimed prediction or result to the inputs by construction. The central claims rest on benchmark performance rather than on self-definitional steps, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations that import uniqueness theorems. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular proposal whose validity is testable externally via ablation or parser accuracy metrics.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on the assumption that off-the-shelf discourse parsers can produce reliable trees and graphs for arbitrary retrieved chunks; no free parameters or invented entities are mentioned in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Discourse structures extracted from text chunks accurately reflect intended hierarchies and cross-passage coherence
    The framework depends on these structures being useful inputs to the generation process.

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