Beyond basic graph retrieval: six production-oriented architectures for combining semantic search, knowledge graphs, and LLM reasoning.
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By Partha Sarkar
The paper introduces a novel LLM‑driven multi‑agent pipeline that converts relational databases into graph databases by standardizing table and column names and iteratively refining the graph schema through ETL, Analyzer, and Graph agents. The resulting graph database meets accuracy, groundedness, and faithfulness criteria and shows significant performance gains, achieving 85.6% Q&A accuracy—12.12% higher than an SQL agent on PostgreSQL—and reducing latency by roughly threefold on a BFSI dataset. This demonstrates an efficient, automated method for transforming tabular data into a more intuitive and faster‑executing graph format.
By Dinh-Khanh Pham, Quy-Anh Dang, Lam Mai Thanh, Khanh Bui, Truong-Son Hy
arXiv:2606. 11560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their limitations in structured and multi-hop reasoning underscore the need for graph-native, synergistic artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
By Arijit Khan, Longxu Sun, Xin Huang
Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their limitations in structured and multi-hop reasoning underscore the need for graph-native, synergistic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Graph-structured data underpins critical applications across social, biological, financial, transportation, web, and knowledge domains, making it essential to understand how LLMs can leverage graph computation for grounded, context-rich inference.
arXiv:2605. 26874v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents for industrial asset operations show limited accuracy when reasoning over flat document stores.
By Madhulatha Mandarapu, Sandeep Kunkunuru
The article argues that for small‑to‑medium enterprises, the most disruptive yet essential step toward data maturity is to rebuild or strengthen a solid knowledge foundation layer. It stresses that this initiative must be evidence‑backed and minimally disruptive to current processes, and it proposes a low‑impact data strategy that adapts to evolving data flows. The authors emphasize that knowledge graph techniques will become indispensable in AI‑powered enterprises if designed modularly, dynamically, and cross‑functionally.
By Valentina Carapella, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz
arXiv:2508. 02548v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose KG-ER, a conceptual schema language for knowledge graphs that describes the structure of knowledge graphs independently of their representation (relational databases, property graphs, RDF) while helping to capture the semantics of the information stored in a knowledge graph.
By Enrico Franconi, Beno\^it Groz, Jan Hidders, Nina Pardal, S{\l}awek Staworko, Jan Van den Bussche, Piotr Wieczorek
Posted by Bahare Fatemi and Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientists, Google Research Imagine all the things around you — your friends, tools in your kitchen, or even the parts of your bike. They are all connected in different ways.
By Google AI
arXiv:2607. 09666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) due to their intrinsic ability to model graph-structured data.
By Chengcheng Sun, Jiayun Tian, Cheng Zhai, Zhixiao Wang, Yajie Song, Xiaobin Rui, Jian Zhang, Philip S. Yu
As "AI Scientists" emerge to drive research via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), systems relying on ephemeral scripts will fail. The sheer scale of stateful, interconnected evidence requires a machine-walkable warranty grounded in a purpose-built database architecture.
The paper introduces Acacia, a graph foundation model trained on the Common Crawl web graph. Acacia can handle arbitrary feature dimensionalities and semantics, perform node classification, link prediction, node clustering, and graph generation, and exhibit in-context learning—all without additional training or pretrained LLMs. Unlike existing models that require extra heads or rely on LLMs, Acacia is trained from scratch and can adapt to new graphs and labels directly.
By Ryoma Sato
arXiv:2608. 04457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As "AI Scientists" emerge to drive research via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), systems relying on ephemeral scripts will fail.
By Hans-Martin Will, Allen L. Brown Jr., Matthew Fuchs