DualG-MRAG

DualG-MRAG: Dual-tier graph architecture decouples macro-reasoning and micro-matching for multimodal RAG

A new arXiv preprint introduces DualG-MRAG, a framework for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation that separates global structural reasoning (Macro Graph) from fine-grained local evidence matching (Micro Graph) to address retrieval noise in multi-hop reasoning tasks. The system uses a GNN-based retriever with query-driven message passing and a dynamic programming decoding mechanism that extracts explicit reasoning paths from the GNN's forward pass rather than feeding isolated document chunks to the generative model. Experiments show improvements over baselines on evidence recall and complex QA accuracy. The work targets a known failure mode of graph-enhanced MM-RAG systems where fine-grained visual features cause graph explosion and noise.