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Dynamically Adaptive Reasoning via LLM-Guided MCTS for Efficient and Context-Aware KGQA

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  • Haebom

Author

Yingxu Wang, Shiqi Fan, Mengzhu Wang, Siyang Gao, Siwei Liu, Nan Yin

Outline

This paper proposes Dynamically Adaptive MCTS-based Reasoning (DAMR), a novel framework for Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). To overcome the limitations of existing retrieve-then-reason and LLM-based dynamic path generation methods, DAMR integrates Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based symbolic search with adaptive path evaluation. An LLM-based planner selects the top k relevant relations at each step to reduce the search space, and a lightweight transformer-based scorer performs context-aware likelihood estimation by co-encoding question and relation sequences. Furthermore, a dynamic pseudopath refinement mechanism mitigates the lack of high-quality supervised data. Experimental results demonstrate that DAMR significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present an efficient and context-aware KGQA framework by combining MCTS and LLM, a lightweight transformer-based scorer.
Alleviating the lack of high-quality supervision data through a dynamic path improvement mechanism.
Demonstrated superior performance over existing methods in various benchmarks.
Limitations:
Reliance on LLM-based planners still exists. Further research is needed to determine whether the cost issues associated with LLM calls can be fully resolved.
Further analysis is needed to determine the performance of the dynamic path improvement mechanism. Verification of the quality and stability of the pseudo-labels is also needed.
Further validation is needed to determine whether performance improvements for specific KGQA benchmarks can be generalized.
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