Bounded Path Context: A Controlled Study of Visible Path History in LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering
LLM-based knowledge-graph question answering (KGQA) delegates graph traversal to language models, turning each question into a sequence of local relation-selection decisions repeated across beams and hops. A common but untested default is to serialize the complete partial path into every routing prompt, even though the controller already maintains this path as exact symbolic state. Bounded Path Context (BPC) decouples these two roles: the controller retains full paths in symbolic memory for answer extraction and audit, while the relation-selection prompt exposes only the question, the current entity, outgoing relation candidates, and at most the last K hops. A controlled sweep over K -- f...
| Authors | Xihang Shan, Ye Luo |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 26 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 26 May 2026 |
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