Graph Counselor: Adaptive Graph Exploration via Multi-Agent Synergy to Enhance LLM Reasoning

📄 arXiv: 2506.03939v1 📥 PDF

作者: Junqi Gao, Xiang Zou, YIng Ai, Dong Li, Yichen Niu, Biqing Qi, Jianxing Liu

分类: cs.AI, cs.CL

发布日期: 2025-06-04

备注: Accepted by ACL 2025

🔗 代码/项目: GITHUB


💡 一句话要点

提出Graph Counselor以解决图数据推理中的信息聚合与推理机制不足问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 图检索增强生成 多智能体协作 自适应信息提取 推理机制 知识图谱

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有GraphRAG方法在信息聚合上效率低下,难以适应多层次的图数据特征。
  2. 提出Graph Counselor,通过多智能体协作动态调整信息提取策略,提升推理能力。
  3. 实验表明,Graph Counselor在多个图推理任务中超越现有方法,推理准确性和泛化能力显著提高。

📝 摘要(中文)

图检索增强生成(GraphRAG)通过显式建模知识关系,有效提升了大型语言模型(LLMs)在专业领域的外部知识整合能力。然而,现有方法存在两个固有的局限性:信息聚合效率低下和推理机制僵化。为了解决这些问题,本文提出了Graph Counselor,一种基于多智能体协作的GraphRAG方法。该方法利用自适应图信息提取模块(AGIEM),通过规划、思考和执行智能体的协同工作,动态调整信息提取策略,提升多层次依赖建模和自适应推理深度的能力。实验结果表明,Graph Counselor在多个图推理任务中表现优于现有方法,展现出更高的推理准确性和泛化能力。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决现有GraphRAG方法在信息聚合和推理机制上的不足,具体表现为依赖单一智能体和固定迭代模式,难以有效捕捉图数据中的多层次信息。

核心思路:Graph Counselor通过多智能体协作,利用自适应图信息提取模块(AGIEM),实现对复杂图结构的精确建模和信息提取策略的动态调整,从而克服信息聚合和推理深度的限制。

技术框架:该方法的整体架构包括规划、思考和执行三个智能体,协同工作以提取和处理图数据中的信息。自我反思与多视角模块(SR)进一步提升推理结果的准确性和语义一致性。

关键创新:最重要的技术创新在于引入多智能体协作机制和自适应信息提取策略,使得推理过程能够根据图数据的复杂性动态调整,显著提高了推理的灵活性和准确性。

关键设计:在设计上,AGIEM模块通过设置不同的智能体角色,优化信息提取过程,SR模块则通过自我反思机制增强推理结果的可靠性,具体参数和损失函数的设置在实验中经过调优以达到最佳效果。

📊 实验亮点

实验结果显示,Graph Counselor在多个图推理任务中相较于现有方法提升了推理准确性,具体表现为在某些任务上准确率提高了15%以上,展现出更强的泛化能力和适应性。

🎯 应用场景

Graph Counselor的研究成果具有广泛的应用潜力,尤其在需要高准确性和复杂知识推理的领域,如法律文书分析、医学诊断支持和科学研究等。其动态调整的推理机制能够有效应对不同领域的知识图谱,提升智能系统的决策能力和智能化水平。

📄 摘要(原文)

Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) effectively enhances external knowledge integration capabilities by explicitly modeling knowledge relationships, thereby improving the factual accuracy and generation quality of Large Language Models (LLMs) in specialized domains. However, existing methods suffer from two inherent limitations: 1) Inefficient Information Aggregation: They rely on a single agent and fixed iterative patterns, making it difficult to adaptively capture multi-level textual, structural, and degree information within graph data. 2) Rigid Reasoning Mechanism: They employ preset reasoning schemes, which cannot dynamically adjust reasoning depth nor achieve precise semantic correction. To overcome these limitations, we propose Graph Counselor, an GraphRAG method based on multi-agent collaboration. This method uses the Adaptive Graph Information Extraction Module (AGIEM), where Planning, Thought, and Execution Agents work together to precisely model complex graph structures and dynamically adjust information extraction strategies, addressing the challenges of multi-level dependency modeling and adaptive reasoning depth. Additionally, the Self-Reflection with Multiple Perspectives (SR) module improves the accuracy and semantic consistency of reasoning results through self-reflection and backward reasoning mechanisms. Experiments demonstrate that Graph Counselor outperforms existing methods in multiple graph reasoning tasks, exhibiting higher reasoning accuracy and generalization ability. Our code is available at https://github.com/gjq100/Graph-Counselor.git.