arXiv AI

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.

arXiv AI
Sep 11

Multi-Agent Agentic Graph Learning via Structural Signatures

The paper introduces Multi-Agent Agentic Graph Learning (MAAGL), a framework that partitions a graph into communities and assigns a dedicated agent to each community for specialized reasoning. MAAGL addresses two key challenges in existing agentic graph learning: it preserves permutation invariance by summarizing structural evidence with a dynamic structural signature, and it controls context size by filtering semantic evidence to the top‑k relevant nodes. Experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that MAAGL outperforms state‑of‑the‑art agentic graph learning methods.

By Liang Qu, Jianxin Li, Hua Wang
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 AI
Jul 20

ToolVerse: Unlocking Massive Environments and Long-Horizon Tasks for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 15660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While LLM agents demonstrate strong reasoning abilities in compact and well-defined scenarios, they struggle to maintain robustness and effectiveness when faced with large-scale, diverse, and dynamic real-world environments that demand seamless tool integration.

By Shuaiyu Zhou, Fengpeng Yue, Zengjie Hu, Yuanzhe Shen, Chenyang Zhang, feng hong, Cao Liu, Ke Zeng
arXiv AI
Sep 18

Rethinking Multi-Agent Collaboration: When More Is Less

The paper examines when multi‑agent collaboration is beneficial versus single‑agent approaches. It finds that collaboration yields systematic advantages mainly in long‑horizon tasks with sparse dependencies, while single agents perform better in tightly coupled, sequential workflows. The authors introduce SAIGE, a lightweight multi‑agent mechanism that models collaboration as a dynamically evolving graph, and show that it balances context efficiency and task performance without always improving outcomes as more agents are added.

By Yishuo Yuan, Yibo Wu, Yihan Zhang, Minyuan Sun, Shenliang Li, Xinkai Ma, Yifan Li, Jiaheng Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 1

AgenticRag-R1: Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Stack Memory for Multi-Step Reasoning, Retrieval and Memorizing

AgenticRag‑R1 is a reinforcement‑learning framework that integrates reasoning, retrieval, and memory through a stack and fine‑grained action space. It uses hierarchical action‑aware rewards and an information‑aware trajectory rejection strategy to support long‑horizon learning. Experiments on multi‑hop, open‑domain, and agentic reasoning benchmarks show that AgenticRag‑R1 outperforms strong baselines and produces robust, interpretable, memory‑aware reasoning behaviors.

By Xinke Jiang, Yue Fang, Zhibang Yang, Jiaran Gao, Zhixin Zhang, Tao Feng, Rihong Qiu, Wentao Zhang, Hongxin Ding, Ruizhe Zhang, Yongxin Xu, Yuheng Huang, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 17

Rethinking Multi-Agent Collaboration: When More Is Less

The paper examines when multi‑agent collaboration is truly beneficial as large language models grow more capable. It finds that multi‑agent systems yield systematic advantages mainly for long‑horizon tasks with sparse dependencies, while single‑agent approaches excel in tightly coupled, sequential workflows. The authors introduce SAIGE, a lightweight, graph‑based collaboration framework that balances context efficiency and performance, demonstrating that adding more agents or deeper recursion does not always improve outcomes.

arXiv AI
3d ago

GRADS: Graph-Regulated Agentic Data Synthesis with Controllable Difficulty

GRADS is a graph-guided framework for generating synthetic data that explicitly controls difficulty by maintaining a graph of evidence and inference dependencies. It iteratively selects seeds, expands evidence, constructs question–answer pairs, and verifies them, ensuring that each generated task contains only indispensable inference steps. Experiments across security, software engineering, and scientific domains show that GRADS produces verified tasks with distinct difficulty levels, and training models on this data yields significant performance gains, including high solution-termination rates and reduced tool usage.

By Gaocheng Yang, Ruijie Tao, Kai Ye, Senhua Zhang, Zhengqin Zhu, Ziyang Li
arXiv AI
Sep 7

GLOW: Graph-Language Co-Encoding for Agentic Workflow Performance Prediction

GLOW is a framework that predicts the performance of Agentic Workflows by combining Graph Neural Networks with a graph-oriented Large Language Model. It extracts topology-aware semantic representations from workflow descriptions and fuses them with structural representations via a Transformer-based module, using contrastive learning to enhance discriminative power. Experiments on the FLORA-Bench benchmark show GLOW surpasses existing baselines in accuracy and ranking, and when used in the AFLOW generation system, it cuts optimization time by 98.7% with minimal loss in score.

By Wei Guan, Jian Cao, Jinyu Cai, Qiqi Cai, Jianqi Gao, See-Kiong Ng