arXiv AI

Evolve on Graph: Self-Evolving Knowledge Graph Reasoning without Question Annotations

arXiv AI
Oct 1

GraphCert: Bootstrap Agentic Graph Reasoning with Certified Evidence Rubrics

GraphCert introduces a method to bootstrap graph reasoning agents by generating graph‑grounded question‑answer pairs and certifying the supporting evidence. The approach uses a Bootstrapped Graph Quizzer to produce QA pairs, then executes and semantically curates the evidence into certified rubrics that guide reward‑based training of a Graph Solver. Experiments on five GRBENCH domains show GraphCert outperforms larger LLM agents and demonstrates robust policy transfer across heterogeneous graphs.

By Weiqi Jiang, Yuchen Ying, Rui Wang, Kaixuan Chen, Bingde Hu, Shunyu Liu, Yu Wang, Tongya Zheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Agent0: Unleashing Self-Evolving Agents from Zero Data via Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Agent0 is a fully autonomous framework that enables large language model agents to evolve without external data by using a multi‑step co‑evolution process. It pits a curriculum agent against an executor agent, both derived from the same base LLM, where the curriculum agent creates increasingly challenging tasks and the executor learns to solve them. By integrating external tools into the executor’s workflow, the system creates a self‑reinforcing cycle that continuously generates high‑quality curricula, leading to significant gains in reasoning performance—an 18% improvement on mathematical reasoning and 24% on general reasoning for the Qwen3‑8B‑Base model.

By Peng Xia, Kaide Zeng, Jiaqi Liu, Can Qin, Fang Wu, Yiyang Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Huaxiu Yao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

The paper introduces the Procedural Graph, a framework that structures procedural knowledge into (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets to guide large language model agents in planning and tool usage. At each decision point, a guidance model uses the local subgraph to bias the agent’s next action, while an LLM refiner self‑evolves the graph by editing its topology based on successful versus failed trajectories. Experiments across datasets and LLMs show that Procedural Graphs consistently outperform memory‑based baselines, and the self‑evolution mechanism further improves performance without manual engineering.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

The paper introduces Procedural Graphs, a framework that structures procedural knowledge for large language model agents as (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets, analogous to knowledge graphs for factual data. At each decision point, a guidance model uses the local subgraph to bias the agent’s next action, while an LLM refiner self‑evolves the graph by comparing failed and successful trajectories, editing its topology to improve performance. Experiments across various datasets, tasks, and LLMs show that Procedural Graphs consistently outperform memory‑based baselines, and the self‑evolution mechanism further enhances results without manual engineering.

By Yuxing Lu, Yicheng Chen, Shanchan Wu, Sercan \"{O}. Ar{\i}k
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

MARS: Multi-hop Adaptive Retrieval and SPARQL Generation for KGQA

MARS is a scalable knowledge‑graph question‑answering system that integrates large language models with knowledge graphs without requiring model fine‑tuning. It uses a structured retrieval process that links question entities to the graph, iteratively fetching next‑hop information and deciding when to stop and generate a SPARQL query. Evaluated on three KGQA benchmarks—including multilingual settings—MARS matches state‑of‑the‑art performance while remaining efficient and scalable.

By Nikit Srivastava, Daniel Vollmers, Ren\'e Speck, Nikolaos Karalis, Hamada M. Zahera, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
arXiv AI
Sep 28

Self-Play Search Distillation for Large Language Model Reasoning

Self-Play Search Distillation (SPSD) is a framework that generates superhuman synthetic data by having MuZero-like networks play board games in executable environments. The search records are converted into structured reasoning chains that serve as environment‑grounded supervision for training large language models. When applied to Qwen3‑4B‑Base, SPSD improves performance on six mathematics benchmarks from 24.1 to 36.6 and raises the win rate on unseen games from 15% to 45%.

By Lorenzo Molfetta, Wai-Chung Kwan, Giacomo Frisoni, Luca Ragazzi, Gianluca Moro, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Jeff Z. Pan, Pasquale Minervini
arXiv AI
Oct 12

MAGE: Multi-Agent Self-Evolution with Co-Evolutionary Knowledge Graphs

MAGE (Multi-Agent Graph-guided Evolution) is a framework that externalizes self-knowledge of language-model agents into a four-subgraph co-evolutionary knowledge graph, allowing a frozen execution model to retrieve task-conditioned guidance from past reasoning traces and teacher-written corrections. During evolution, the graph, a task-level search bandit, and a skill-level routing bandit are updated from the same reward stream while the learner’s backbone remains unchanged. Across nine diverse benchmarks, MAGE outperforms prompt-based frozen-backbone baselines, and ablations show that self-harvested success traces and teacher-written corrections complement each other, with success memories aiding reasoning-template-heavy tasks and corrective memories supporting harder composition and interaction settings.

By Ruiyi Yang, Zechen Li, Hao Xue, Imran Razzak, Flora D. Salim