Towards Data Science

Making the Knowledge Layer a Graph You Actually Traverse

The article discusses why retrieval quality should be inherent to the system rather than dependent on how a question is phrased. It proposes reconstructing the knowledge layer by performing graph traversal on every query, incorporating bitemporal edges, and applying a two‑threshold entity resolution approach. These techniques aim to make the knowledge graph more dynamic and responsive to user queries.

arXiv AI
Sep 1

LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Completion Combining Discrete Structural Coding with Similar Entity Information

The paper introduces CoSC, a method for knowledge graph completion that merges discrete structural coding with information from similar entities. An LLM first produces a candidate ranking based on structural codes, then refines this ranking using data from entities with comparable structures. Experiments on FB15k-237 demonstrate that CoSC achieves higher MRR and Hits@10 than existing baselines while staying competitive on Hits@1.

By Jiaqi Wang, Dongying Lin, Yang Yang, Yinan Liu, Bin Wang, Xiaochun Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

GraphER: An Efficient Graph-Based Enrichment and Reranking Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2603. 24925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that rely on semantic search often fail to retrieve the complete set of evidence for complex queries, particularly when information is distributed across multiple sources.

By Ruizhong Miao, Yuying Wang, Rongguang Wang, Chenyang Li, Tao Sheng, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

GRASP: Plan-Guided Graph Retrieval with Adaptive Fusion and Reranking on Semi-Structured Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2605. 30237v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semi-structured knowledge bases (SKBs) embed textual documents in a typed graph of entities and relations, and underpin applications such as product search, academic paper search, and precision-medicine inquiries.

By Yicheng Tao, Yiqun Wang, Xiangchen Song, Xin Luo, Kai Liu, Jie Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

SelfGraphRAG: Bridging the Supervision Gap in Graph-Based RAG with Synthetic QA Generation

SelfGraphRAG is a framework that generates synthetic question‑answer pairs directly from the structure of a knowledge graph to train a query‑conditioned graph retriever. By capturing multi‑hop paths and local neighborhoods, the generated questions provide relational supervision without requiring manually labeled data. Experiments on multi‑hop question answering and classification tasks show that SelfGraphRAG improves retrieval precision and downstream reasoning performance compared to embedding‑based baselines.

By Ben Lagnese, Manas Gaur