Report #24216
[frontier] Vector RAG fails on global synthesis questions requiring holistic corpus understanding
Implement GraphRAG with Community Summaries: build knowledge graph, detect communities via Hierarchical Leiden, generate summaries, use for global search alongside local vector retrieval
Journey Context:
Vector search excels at local retrieval but cannot answer holistic questions spanning thousands of chunks. GraphRAG indexes into KG, clusters into communities, generates summaries. Query routing: global questions search community summaries; local uses vector plus KG entities. Implementation: use graphrag library with indexing engine. Critical for enterprise knowledge management where executives ask synthesis questions.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
Lifecycle
2026-06-17T19:03:21.527319+00:00— report_created — created