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Think Parallax: Solving Multi-Hop Problems via Multi-View Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv 2510.15552 ↗First posted 17 Oct 2025cs.CL cs.AIcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with multi-hop reasoning over knowledge-graphs (KGs), and we identify a previously overlooked structural reason for this difficulty: Transformer attention heads naturally specialize in distinct semantic relations across reasoning stages, forming a hop-aligned relay pattern. This key finding suggests that multi-hop reasoning is inherently multi-view, yet existing KG-based retrieval-augmented generation (KG-RAG) systems collapse all reasoning hops into a single representation, flat embedding space, suppressing this implicit structure and causing noisy or drifted path exploration. We introduce ParallaxRAG, a symmetric multi-view framework that decouples queries and KGs into aligned, head-specific semantic spaces. By enforcing relational diversity across multiple heads while constraining weakly related paths, ParallaxRAG constructs more accurate, cleaner subgraphs and guides LLMs through grounded, hop-wise reasoning. On WebQSP and CWQ, it achieves state-of-the-art retrieval and QA performance, substantially reduces hallucination, and generalizes strongly to the biomedical BioASQ benchmark.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 21 of its 42 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 Oct 2025.

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  2. 2024Simple Is Effective: The Roles of Graphs and Large Language Models in Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation28 Oct
  3. 2024GNN-RAG: Graph Neural Retrieval for Large Language Model Reasoning30 May
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  6. 2023Think-on-Graph: Deep and Responsible Reasoning of Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph15 Jul
  7. 2022Interleaving Retrieval with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Multi-Step Questions20 Dec
  8. 2022UniKGQA: Unified Retrieval and Reasoning for Solving Multi-hop Question Answering Over Knowledge Graph2 Dec

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