Graph-augmented large language models often assume that graph evidence produced by external computation and placed in the input can be used by the native decoder. We test this assumption with HopQA, a...
arXiv:2602. 11745v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph models are fundamental to data analysis in domains rich with complex relationships.
By Songlin Lyu, Lujie Ban, Zihang Wu, Tianqi Luo, Jirong Liu, Ayoub Moussaid, Oskar van Rest, Heng Lin, Chenhao Ma, Nan Tang, Shipeng Qi, Yongchao Liu, Zhan Qiu, Juelu Zhang, Jiajun Zheng
arXiv:2606. 11562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph analysis underlies many applications whose answers cannot be looked up in a single record or retrieved along a path: laundering rings, drug repurposing, user preference, and scientific theme are all inferred from a node together with its neighbourhood.
By Zhuoyi Peng, Jingzhou Jiang, Hanlin Gu, Lixin Fan, Yi Yang
The paper introduces a two-stage diagnostic evaluation to assess the structural reliability of reasoning graphs used in large language models for tasks like multi-hop question answering. Stage 1 examines how graph reliability depends on topology, prompt design, and model family, while Stage 2 evaluates the impact of graph errors on uncertainty estimation. Findings show that graph-based computation is vulnerable to upstream errors, offers limited benefit as prompt context alone, but improves confidence-based answer discrimination and enables node-level diagnostics.
By Xinyu Liu, Dongqi Fu, Jun Wu
GraphDecisionBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate System One models—such as Jev—that make decisions directly from supplied options on graph-related tasks. The benchmark is model‑independent and incorporates structural task profiles, matched graph‑text input contrasts, and heuristic‑proposal controls to diagnose graph decision performance. Evaluations across fourteen model‑interface configurations reveal that accurate adjacency recognition does not guarantee broader structural correctness, joint graph‑text input does not consistently improve prediction, and feasible construction does not ensure high solution quality.
By Xianliang Yang, Yapu Zhang, Li Zhao
ThreadRAG is a retrieval‑augmented generation framework that preserves contextual consistency by structuring retrieved documents into Semantic Nodes and building a Semantic Topology Graph (STG). It uses Energy‑Driven Pathfinding (EDP) to identify query‑relevant subgraphs and linearize them into coherent textual evidence paths. Experiments on HotpotQA, 2WikiMultihop, and another benchmark show ThreadRAG outperforms strong baselines, achieving a 14.4% EM gain on HotpotQA and a 5.8% EM lead on 2WikiMultihop while cutting token cost to 23.3% of the strongest baseline.
By Yufeng Li, Zaijing Li, Fuchen Zhang, Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang
GraphDecide is a model‑independent benchmark designed to evaluate System One models—such as Jev—that make decisions directly from supplied options on graph‑related tasks. The benchmark combines structural task profiles, matched graph‑text input contrasts, and heuristic‑proposal controls to diagnose graph decision performance. In testing fourteen model‑interface configurations, GraphDecide shows that accurate adjacency recognition does not guarantee broader structural correctness, joint graph‑text input does not consistently improve prediction, and feasible construction does not ensure high solution quality.
The paper investigates whether natural language inference (NLI) can be performed using only interpretable, graph-based representations of evidence. It introduces a pipeline that decomposes sentences into atomic propositions, maps them to ConceptNet triples, and feeds three graphs—premise, hypothesis, and a retrieved ConceptNet subgraph—into a fine‑tuned 0.8‑billion‑parameter language model. On the SNLI dataset the graph‑only model reaches 89.7% accuracy, close to a text‑based baseline, while on ANLI it matches RoBERTa‑large on rounds R2 and R3 but lags on R1, illustrating a trade‑off between interpretability and performance.
By Younes Boufouss (LISN), Luc Pommeret (LISN, CNRS), Thomas Gerald (LISN), Patrick Paroubek (LISN, CNRS), Sophie Rosset (LISN, CNRS)
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:2606. 00328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for knowledge base question answering (KBQA), where answering requires selecting entities from a question-specific knowledge-graph subgraph.
By Albert Sawczyn, Piotr Bielak, Tomasz Kajdanowicz
The paper introduces EXYGEN, a framework that enables conversational access to large knowledge graphs by combining VoID descriptions, ShEx schemas, retrieved triples, and example question‑query pairs in a retrieval‑augmented generation pipeline. On the SciQA benchmark, this approach achieves an exact‑match score of 0.419 without fine‑tuning any large language model, and shows that larger general‑purpose LLMs can outperform smaller code‑specialized ones when provided sufficient context. To scale metadata generation for very large KGs, the authors propose a predicate‑coverage‑aware parallel graph sampling strategy that preserves structural diversity, reduces runtime by over 80× on OpenCitations Meta and GESIS, and is the only tractable method for obtaining complete metadata on ORKG.
By Harshdeep Singh, Yurui Zhu, Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello
arXiv:2606. 16603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes their reasoning difficult to audit.
By Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao, Yuyang Hu, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou