Does Document Structure Help Dense Retrieval? A Placebo-Controlled Ablation of Four Mechanisms Across Two Corpora

arXiv:2610.10170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation systems increasingly rely on document-structure treatments: structure-aligned chunking, LLM-generated chunk contexts, heading-path metadata, and hierarchical two-stage retrieval.

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