DWTSumm: Discrete Wavelet Transform for Document Summarization
Rana Salama, Abdou Youssef, Mona Diab · Apr 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Summarizing long, domain-specific documents with large language models (LLMs) remains challenging due to context limitations, information loss, and hallucinations, particularly in clinical and legal settings. We propose a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based multi-resolution framework that treats text as a semantic signal and decomposes it into global (approximation) and local (detail) components. Applied to sentence- or word-level embeddings, DWT yields compact representations that preserve overall structure and critical domain-specific details, which are used directly as summaries or to guide LLM generation. Experiments on clinical and legal benchmarks demonstrate comparable ROUGE-L scores. Compared to a GPT-4o baseline, the DWT based summarization consistently improve semantic similarity and grounding, achieving gains of over 2% in BERTScore, more than 4\% in Semantic Fidelity, factual consistency in legal tasks, and large METEOR improvements indicative of preserved domain-specific semantics. Across multiple embedding models, Fidelity reaches up to 97%, suggesting that DWT acts as a semantic denoising mechanism that reduces hallucinations and strengthens factual grounding. Overall, DWT provides a lightweight, generalizable method for reliable long-document and domain-specific summarization with LLMs.