GraphPlanner: Graph Memory-Augmented Agentic Routing for Multi-Agent LLMs
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks
Abstract (arXiv)
LLM routing has achieved promising results in integrating the strengths of diverse models while balancing efficiency and performance. However, to support more realistic and challenging applications, routing must extend into agentic LLM settings, where task planning, multi-round cooperation among heterogeneous agents, and memory utilization are indispensable. To address this gap, we propose GraphPlanner, a heterogeneous graph memory-augmented agentic router for multi-agent LLMs that generates routing workflows for each query and supports both inductive and transductive inference. GraphPlanner formulates workflow generation as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), where at each step it selects both the LLM backbone and the agent role, including Planner, Executor, and Summarizer. By leveraging a heterogeneous graph, denoted as GARNet, to capture interaction memories among queries, agents, and responses, GraphPlanner integrates historical memory and workflow memory into richer state representations. The entire pipeline is optimized with reinforcement learning, jointly improving task-specific performance and computational efficiency. We evaluate GraphPlanner across 14 diverse LLM tasks and demonstrate that: (1) GraphPlanner outperforms strong single-round and multi-round routers, improving accuracy by up to 9.3% while reducing GPU cost from 186.26 GiB to 1.04 GiB; (2) GraphPlanner generalizes robustly to unseen tasks and LLMs, exhibiting strong zero-shot capabilities; and (3) GraphPlanner effectively leverages historical memories, supporting both inductive and transductive inference for more adaptive routing. Our code for GraphPlanner is released at https://github.com/ulab-uiuc/GraphPlanner.
Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 42 of its 60 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Apr 2026.
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