arXiv Machine Learning July 23, 2026 By Mohammed Sameer Syed

The Mechanism Matters: When Knowledge Graphs Help Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2607. 19616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are widely used to inject prior knowledge into reinforcement learning (RL), yet the literature is dominated by single-domain, positive-result method papers, so we lack a systematic account of when KG structure helps an agent, when it is neutral, and when it hurts.

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