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Multi-Agent Agentic Graph Learning via Structural Signatures

arXiv 2609.09565 ↗First posted 9 Sep 2026cs.AIcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Agentic graph learning (AGL) has recently achieved promising results on graph reasoning tasks, where an agent powered by a large language model (LLM) sequentially samples the graph as evidence to support its final prediction. Existing methods either employ a single agent or orchestrate multiple role-based agents to reason and learn over the entire graph, but both essentially rely on a shared reasoning policy across different graph regions, which can be suboptimal for graphs with heterogeneous structural and semantic patterns. Inspired by the progress of multi-agent collaboration on complex reasoning tasks, a natural remedy is to let multiple agents own different memory and collaborate; however, applying this paradigm to graphs directly faces two challenges. First, existing AGL methods typically verbalize graph structures into natural-language descriptions for LLM agents, making the reasoning process sensitive to the ordering of structural information and thereby breaking the permutation-invariant nature of graphs. Second, incorporating increasingly large sampled neighborhoods leads to rapidly growing contexts. To address these challenges, this paper introduces a multi-agent agentic graph learning (i.e., MAAGL) framework. MAAGL partitions the graph into communities and assigns an independent agent to each community for region-specific specialization. MAAGL represents structural and semantic evidence separately. Structural evidence is summarized by a dynamically updated structural signature that is permutation-invariant and fixed in size, while semantic evidence is filtered to the top-k nodes ranked by relevance. Based on historical trajectories with similar signatures, agents estimate their confidence and trigger debate-style collaboration when needed. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets show that MAAGL outperforms SOTA AGL methods.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 31 of its 39 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Sep 2026.

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