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Ontology-Guided Evidence Path Inference for Multi-hop Knowledge Graph Question Answering

arXiv:2606. 28076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) aims to answer natural-language questions by reasoning over structured facts.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

Better Later Than Sooner: Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Construction via Ontology-grounded Post-extraction Correction

The paper introduces a neuro‑symbolic framework for constructing knowledge graphs (KGs) that are grounded in an ontology. It combines open‑domain extraction, embedding‑based canonicalization of types and predicates, and a post‑extraction LLM‑based correction step to fix ontology violations, thereby reducing token usage and improving KG consistency. The resulting KGs support symbolic querying, as evidenced by the prevalence of SPARQL graph patterns in the extracted data.

By Lorenzo Loconte, Timothy Hospedales, Cristina Cornelio
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Hi-Q: Hierarchical Evidence-guided Query Refinement for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Hi-Q is a new framework for multi‑hop question answering that refines queries hierarchically based on evidence retrieved from a corpus. At each node it tests whether the current query unit is supported by evidence; if not, the node is expanded using a dependency‑preserving binary operator and verified for semantic coverage. The resulting query tree grows according to corpus support signals, and Hi‑Q achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on three multi‑hop QA benchmarks, outperforming both iterative retrieval and graph‑based baselines without constructing a corpus‑wide graph.

By Jueun Kim, Sungho Park, Wook-Shin Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

VISPATH: Visual-Intent-Guided Path Reasoning for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Question Answering

VISPATH is a visual‑intent‑guided path reasoning framework designed for multimodal knowledge graph question answering (MM‑KGQA). It first identifies a reliable starting entity by fusing multimodal grounding with graph‑structural cues, then iteratively discovers and refines reasoning paths using hop‑specific multimodal intent and a reasoning‑chain pruning step. The framework is evaluated on the newly introduced VISPATH‑Bench, which tests two‑to‑four‑hop reasoning, and demonstrates consistent improvements over strong baselines, even surpassing GPT‑5.4 when using GPT‑4o as the backbone.

By Jinke Wu, Zhengpin Li, Mengzhe Jia, Yang Li, Wentao Zhang