PathISE: Learning Informative Path Supervision for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

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Autori principali: Gao, Shengxiang, Lei, Chao, Lau, Jey Han, Qi, Jianzhong
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author Gao, Shengxiang
Lei, Chao
Lau, Jey Han
Qi, Jianzhong
author_facet Gao, Shengxiang
Lei, Chao
Lau, Jey Han
Qi, Jianzhong
contents Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to answer user questions by reasoning over Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Recent KGQA methods mainly follow the retrieval-augmented generation paradigm to ground Large Language Models~(LLMs) with structured knowledge from KGs. However, training effective models to retrieve question-relevant evidence from KGs typically requires high-quality intermediate supervision signals, such as question-relevant paths or subgraphs, which are time- and resource-intensive to obtain. We propose PathISE, a novel framework for learning high-quality intermediate supervision from answer-level labels. PathISE introduces a lightweight transformer-based estimator that estimates the informativeness of relation paths to construct pseudo path-level supervision. This supervision is then distilled into an LLM path generator, whose generated paths are grounded in the KG to provide compact evidence for inductive answer reasoning. ExtensiveISE experiments on three KGQA benchmarks show that PathISE achieves competitive or state-of-the-art KGQA performance, and provides reusable supervision signals that can enhance existing KGQA models, without relying on costly LLM-refined supervision signals. Our source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PathISE-2F87.
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spellingShingle PathISE: Learning Informative Path Supervision for Knowledge Graph Question Answering
Gao, Shengxiang
Lei, Chao
Lau, Jey Han
Qi, Jianzhong
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to answer user questions by reasoning over Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Recent KGQA methods mainly follow the retrieval-augmented generation paradigm to ground Large Language Models~(LLMs) with structured knowledge from KGs. However, training effective models to retrieve question-relevant evidence from KGs typically requires high-quality intermediate supervision signals, such as question-relevant paths or subgraphs, which are time- and resource-intensive to obtain. We propose PathISE, a novel framework for learning high-quality intermediate supervision from answer-level labels. PathISE introduces a lightweight transformer-based estimator that estimates the informativeness of relation paths to construct pseudo path-level supervision. This supervision is then distilled into an LLM path generator, whose generated paths are grounded in the KG to provide compact evidence for inductive answer reasoning. ExtensiveISE experiments on three KGQA benchmarks show that PathISE achieves competitive or state-of-the-art KGQA performance, and provides reusable supervision signals that can enhance existing KGQA models, without relying on costly LLM-refined supervision signals. Our source code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PathISE-2F87.
title PathISE: Learning Informative Path Supervision for Knowledge Graph Question Answering
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10791