Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15845v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:03:01 GMT
• Title: Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation
• Abstract summary: We propose a knowledge-centric framework that learns to invert, inject, and infer with knowledge across multiple abstraction levels.<n>Our method produces with richer node diversity, more coherent structures, and higher execution success rates than existing systems.
• Score: 73.4340391112949
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Workflow generation in visual creation systems such as ComfyUI demands not only syntactic accuracy but also expert-level reasoning over modular compositions. Existing large language model (LLM) approaches often treat this as a direct text-to-JSON generation task, struggling with structural brittleness and lacking the experiential knowledge required for effective design. We argue that successful workflow generation requires modeling knowledge itself, including its structure, hierarchy, and reasoning dynamics. To this end, we propose a knowledge-centric framework that learns to invert, inject, and infer with knowledge across multiple abstraction levels. We first perform knowledge inversion to distill hierarchical representations, ranging from full pseudo-codes and skeletons to high-level strategies, from large collections of real-world workflows. We then conduct knowledge injection through supervised fine-tuning, teaching the model to reason from task descriptions to strategies and from strategies to executable structures. During inference, the model performs reversible reasoning to synthesize executable workflows, augmented by self-refinement for structural coherence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method produces workflows with richer node diversity, more coherent structures, and higher execution success rates than existing systems, establishing a new foundation for knowledge-driven, agentic workflow generation.

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