OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking

Published
Source
arXiv
Paper number
020
Field
Long-form Generation
arXiv ID
2501.09751

Key points

  • It proposes a method that expands reflection before generation by leveraging graphs of related concepts.
  • This enables the model to produce longer, more interesting, and more informative responses.
  • Machine writing with large language models often relies on retrieval-augmented generation.
  • However, such approaches keep the model within a preselected boundary, which limits the generation of richly informative content.
  • More specifically, simply retrieved information tends to lack depth and novelty and often suffers from redundancy, which harms generated text quality and leads to shallow, unoriginal, and repetitive output.
  • To address these issues, it proposes OmniThink, a slow-thinking machine writing framework that mimics the human process of iterative expansion and reflection.

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