# DualResearch: Entropy-Gated Dual-Graph Retrieval for Answer Reconstruction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08959 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.08959/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning.
- Builds on 28 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Oct 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM reasoning / [Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/lr/knowledge-and-tool-augmented-reasoning/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 28 of 28)

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- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.10997/) (2023)
- [From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.16130/) (2024)
- [In-Context Retrieval-Augmented Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.00083/) (2023)
- [Towards Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.10403/) (2022)
- [Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.10496/) (2022)
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- [One for All: Towards Training One Graph Model for All Classification Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.00149/) (2023)
- [GraphGPT: Graph Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.13023/) (2023)
- [RankRAG: Unifying Context Ranking with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.02485/) (2024)
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- [Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.03843/) (2023)
- [SciMaster: Towards General-Purpose Scientific AI Agents, Part I. X-Master as Foundation: Can We Lead on Humanity's Last Exam?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.05241/) (2025)
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- [ConGraT: Self-Supervised Contrastive Pretraining for Joint Graph and Text Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14321/) (2023)
- [SFR-DeepResearch: Towards Effective Reinforcement Learning for Autonomously Reasoning Single Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.06283/) (2025)
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- [GRENADE: Graph-Centric Language Model for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Text-Attributed Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15109/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Agents-K1: Towards Agent-native Knowledge Orchestration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.13669/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The deep-research framework orchestrates external tools to perform complex, multi-step scientific reasoning that exceeds the native limits of a single large language model. However, it still suffers from context pollution, weak evidentiary support, and brittle execution paths. To address these issues, we propose DualResearch, a retrieval and fusion framework that matches the epistemic structure of tool-intensive reasoning by jointly modeling two complementary graphs: a breadth semantic graph that encodes stable background knowledge, and a depth causal graph that captures execution provenance. Each graph has a layer-native relevance function, seed-anchored semantic diffusion for breadth, and causal-semantic path matching with reliability weighting for depth. To reconcile their heterogeneity and query-dependent uncertainty, DualResearch converts per-layer path evidence into answer distributions and fuses them in log space via an entropy-gated rule with global calibration. The fusion up-weights the more certain channel and amplifies agreement. As a complement to deep-research systems, DualResearch compresses lengthy multi-tool execution logs into a concise reasoning graph, and we show that it can reconstruct answers stably and effectively. On the scientific reasoning benchmarks HLE and GPQA, DualResearch achieves competitive performance. Using log files from the open-source system InternAgent, its accuracy improves by 7.7% on HLE and 6.06% on GPQA.
