arXiv Machine Learning

Formalizing and Mitigating Structural Distortion in LLM Attention for Graph Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for reasoning over Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs).

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

LLM as GNN: Graph Vocabulary Learning for Text-Attributed Graph Foundation Models

The paper introduces PromptGFM, a Graph Foundation Model designed for text‑attributed graphs (TAGs). It integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) through a Graph Understanding Module that prompts LLMs to emulate GNN workflows, and a Graph Inference Module that creates a language‑based graph vocabulary for better alignment and scalability. Experiments show PromptGFM outperforms existing methods and transfers effectively across various graphs and tasks.

By Xi Zhu, Haochen Xue, Ziwei Zhao, Wujiang Xu, Jingyuan Huang, Minghao Guo, Qifan Wang, Kaixiong Zhou, Imran Razzak, Yongfeng Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Unified Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Complex Graph Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 12391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph reasoning provides a promising testbed for evaluating the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), as graph instances can be programmatically generated, structurally controlled, and naturally scaled to long-input settings.

By Fali Wang, Ali Al-Lawati, Iliyas Bektas, Jinxuan Fang, Alek Melenski, Tianxiang Zhao, Yao Ma, Suhang Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 28

GRAIN: Bridging Name and Narrative Shifts in Real-World Graph Reasoning through Invariance-Rewarded Agentic RL

GRAIN is a single-agent reinforcement learning framework that improves large language models’ robustness to real‑world shifts in node identifiers and task formulations by treating reasoning as a semantic parsing and tool‑execution pipeline. It introduces a Structure Invariance Reward that validates intermediate graphs against ground‑truth topologies, encouraging the model to learn genuine text‑to‑structure mappings instead of overfitting to surface patterns. On the new GRIT benchmark, GRAIN surpasses multi‑agent baselines by 16.45% in accuracy, reduces latency by about 24%, and halves the out‑of‑distribution gap of fine‑tuned models while remaining robust on large‑scale graphs beyond the training distribution.

By Zike Yuan, Han Zhang, Jianzhi Yan, Le Liu, Cai Ke, Huozhi Zhou, Jian Xie, Jiran Yin, Yukun Cao, Yue Yu, Hui Wang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin