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RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation

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arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2607.06527v1

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The authors propose a framework called RSF-GLLM to improve Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. The framework decouples differentiable graph reasoning from answer generation, allowing the system to learn to bridge semantic gaps between queries and intermediate nodes that may not have lexical overlap.

What the Document Says

  • The text discusses a new framework called RSF-GLLM for Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs.
  • Traditional retrieve-then-read pipelines in this context break differentiability, preventing the retriever from learning to bridge semantic gaps.
  • RSF-GLLM aims to address this by decoupling differentiable graph reasoning from answer generation.
  • The Recurrent Soft-Flow (RSF) module uses a GRU-guided query updater to propagate continuous relevance scores and a dynamic gating mechanism for traversing semantically dissimilar bridge nodes using structural cues.
  • Flow sparsity regularization is introduced to theoretically guarantee convergence from soft probabilities to discrete reasoning paths.
  • These paths are extracted and textualized to fine-tune a Large Language Model (LLM) for answer generation, ensuring it's grounded in factual topology.
  • Experiments on WebQSP and CWQ show that RSF-GLLM achieves competitive performance with superior inference efficiency compared to LLM based computationally expensive approaches.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • Multi-hop Question Answering
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Recurrent Soft-Flow
  • Large Language Model
  • Semantic Gap
  • Bridge Nodes
  • Differentiability
  • Structural Cues
  • WebQSP
  • CWQ

Claims Made by the Document

  • Traditional retrieve-then-read pipelines break differentiability.
  • RSF-GLLM decouples differentiable graph reasoning from answer generation.
  • RSF-GLLM achieves competitive performance with superior inference efficiency compared to LLM based computationally expensive approaches.

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  • The text states that traditional retrieve-then-read pipelines break differentiability.
  • The text describes the decoupling of differentiable graph reasoning from answer generation in RSF-GLLM.
  • The text mentions experiments demonstrating the performance and inference efficiency of RSF-GLLM compared to other approaches.

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs faces a critical challenge: traditional retrieve-then-read pipelines break differentiability, preventing the retriever from learning to bridge the semantic gap where intermediate nodes lack lexical overlap with the query. To address this, we propose RSF-GLLM, a framework decoupling differentiable graph reasoning from answer generation. Our Recurrent Soft-Flow (RSF) module employs a GRU-guided query updater to propagate continuous relevance scores, utilizing a dynamic gating mechanism to traverse semantically dissimilar bridge nodes via structural cues. We introduce flow sparsity regularization to theoretically guarantee convergence from soft probabilities to discrete reasoning paths. These paths are extracted and textualized to fine-tune a Large Language Model (LLM), ensuring generation is grounded in factual topology. Experiments on WebQSP and CWQ demonstrate that RSF-GLLM achieves competitive performance with superior inference efficiency compared to LLM based computationally expensive approaches.