Knowledge Graph-extended Retrieval Augmented Generation for Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08893v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:03:02 GMT
• Title: Knowledge Graph-extended Retrieval Augmented Generation for Question Answering
• Authors: Jasper Linders, Jakub M. Tomczak,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a system that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) without requiring training.<n>The resulting approach can be classified as a specific form of a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with a KG.<n>It includes a question decomposition module to enhance multi-hop information retrieval and answerability.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a promising approach to robust and explainable Question Answering (QA). While LLMs excel at natural language understanding, they suffer from knowledge gaps and hallucinations. KGs provide structured knowledge but lack natural language interaction. Ideally, an AI system should be both robust to missing facts as well as easy to communicate with. This paper proposes such a system that integrates LLMs and KGs without requiring training, ensuring adaptability across different KGs with minimal human effort. The resulting approach can be classified as a specific form of a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with a KG, thus, it is dubbed Knowledge Graph-extended Retrieval Augmented Generation (KG-RAG). It includes a question decomposition module to enhance multi-hop information retrieval and answer explainability. Using In-Context Learning (ICL) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, it generates explicit reasoning chains processed separately to improve truthfulness. Experiments on the MetaQA benchmark show increased accuracy for multi-hop questions, though with a slight trade-off in single-hop performance compared to LLM with KG baselines. These findings demonstrate KG-RAG's potential to improve transparency in QA by bridging unstructured language understanding with structured knowledge retrieval.

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