knowledge graph
A knowledge graph is a way of organizing information as a web of interconnected facts, where pieces of data (like a drug, a document, or a user) are linked by meaningful relationships (like "contains information about" or "interacts with"). Instead of storing data in isolated rows or files, it lets you navigate from one item to another through these connections, much like following links between web pages. This structure helps machines understand context and find relevant information that might be scattered across different sources.
The papers use knowledge graphs to bridge fragmented information and improve retrieval in complex domains. A common thread is combining the graph with large language models to ground reasoning in structured facts, leading to higher accuracy and safety in tasks like document retrieval, query generation, and clinical decision-making. The graph serves as a backbone that organizes messy data into queryable relationships, but its effectiveness depends on careful integration with AI agents, often reducing reliance on raw text similarity or unstructured memory.
- Papers
- 14
- Released code
- 0
- First seen
- Aug 2026
- Latest
- Nov 2026
10 papers in the last two months, against 4 in the two before.
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Three papers to read first, in the order they came out- 1Event graphs improve LLM stock forecasts across two major markets
Temporally grounded, reliability-calibrated historical event transitions add incremental stock-forecasting signal when applied as a residual correction to a multi-view LLM forecast.
Oct 2026 - 2AI can query undocumented company databases by learning from past queries
Historical SQL logs can provide enough schema and relationship knowledge for entity-driven GraphRAG to generate more executable, higher-quality enterprise SQL than embedding-based retrieval.
Oct 2026 - 3AI agents can pinpoint which code needs updating when designs change
Representing design assets as a content-addressed Merkle directed acyclic graph turns large language model code evolution impact analysis into deterministic hash propagation.
Oct 2026
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agent memoryA repository where an agent stores past interactions and outcomes to inform future decisions.6 togetherlarge language modelA neural network trained on massive text corpora to generate coherent text and perform diverse language tasks.3 togetheragent safetyRisks from AI agents including timing errors, shutdown avoidance, collusion, overclaiming, and unsafe execution, mitigated by constrained decoding, safety harnesses, and swarm governance.2 togetherThe papers
Most central to this idea first, not most recent.
- Big Techcs.CL
AI can query undocumented company databases by learning from past queries
Historical SQL logs can provide enough schema and relationship knowledge for entity-driven GraphRAG to generate more executable, higher-quality enterprise SQL than embedding-based retrieval.
University of Southern California, Amazon · Oct 2026
- Chinese Techcs.SE
AI agents can pinpoint which code needs updating when designs change
Representing design assets as a content-addressed Merkle directed acyclic graph turns large language model code evolution impact analysis into deterministic hash propagation.
Zhejiang University, Tencent · Oct 2026
- Research Labcs.LG
Event graphs improve LLM stock forecasts across two major markets
Temporally grounded, reliability-calibrated historical event transitions add incremental stock-forecasting signal when applied as a residual correction to a multi-view LLM forecast.
Zircon Security, Utrecht University · Oct 2026
- Industrycs.AI
Dual-layer knowledge graph connects fragmented pharmaceutical process-development documents
A dual-layer knowledge graph with LLM agents retrieves answers from CMC documents with 95% accuracy on a 505-question benchmark.
Sanofi US · Sept 2026
- Top Universitycs.AI
AI agents that retrieve reasoning patterns, not just facts, learn faster on complex queries
PatternBloom retrieves reasoning skeletons instead of text, improving multi-hop question answering by 15.0 average OOD EM.
University of Maryland · Nov 2026
- Top Universitycs.CL
AI mathematical reasoning improves more with textbook structure than with isolated problems
Training on structured textbook proofs raises a language model’s average mathematics score by 16.7 percentage points and beats the tested instruction-data baselines overall.
University of Science and Technology of China, Fudan University · Oct 2026
- Big Techcs.CL
Credit assignment that prunes redundant steps improves reasoning accuracy and efficiency
RECAP assigns credit based on downstream dependency and correct-answer progress, improving accuracy and reducing reasoning tokens in large models.
George Mason University, Amazon, Inc · Sept 2026
- Chinese Techcs.CL
Event-centric memory with query-aware graph augmentation boosts long-term dialogue reasoning
QGMem stores long dialogue histories as event-indexed memory units and builds query-specific local graphs, improving retrieval, multi-hop reasoning, and conflict resolution across six benchmarks.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Oct 2026
- Big Techcs.AI
Speaker-indexed memory cuts token costs while preserving answer accuracy
Stashbird reduces memory token usage by up to 76x while achieving competitive question answering accuracy across long-term conversation benchmarks.
Microsoft · Sept 2026
- Top University
Structured memory helps health agents interpret longitudinal patient conversations
PIA turns health conversations into structured clinical records and synthesizes user understanding with four memory controls.
KAIST, NAVER Corp. · Sept 2026
- Independentcs.AI
Structured agent memories withstand model upgrades better than compressed notes
Fixed-schema knowledge graphs transfer across model upgrades without accuracy loss, while compressed natural-language notes lose up to 13 percentage points.
Sept 2026
- Academiccs.CR
Graph-based policy constrains LLM agents for topology-aware incident response
Sentinel-RL offloads topological reasoning from LLM agents to a PPO policy for reliable SOC incident response.
Indiana University · Sept 2026
- Top Universitycs.AI
Physiological grounding makes clinical language-model recommendations safer in controlled tests
Clinical LLMs trained with Neurosymbolic Alignment using a physiological knowledge graph improve safety from 69.5% to 90.8%.
University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Nanyang Technological University · Aug 2026
- Chinese Techcs.CL
Conversational graph querying exposes a gap in model autonomy
Conversational Text-to-Cypher remains unreliable: the best model achieves 64.7% execution accuracy, completes fewer than 5% of sessions correctly, and changes rank under autonomy.
Peking University, National Key Lab of Data Space Technology and System · Sept 2026
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