RAPTOR: Summary Trees by Recursive Clustering

① a tree, no traversal→② score-based, both ways→③ LLM-guided instead→④ traversal learned→⑤ multimodal
BUILD · the machine writes the hierarchy chunks (embedded) cluster summary A cluster summary B top summary cluster similar ones, LLM summarizes · repeat ↺ TRAVERSE · it barely traverses flatten all levels into one pool (collapsed) top-k by similarity · summaries (rounded) mixed with chunks (square) q
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