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AI LLM March 20, 2026

RouterKGQA: Specialized--General Model Routing for Constraint-Aware Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Authors

Bo Yuan, Hexuan Deng, Xuebo Liu, Min Zhang

Abstract

Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) is a promising approach for mitigating LLM hallucination by grounding reasoning in structured and verifiable knowledge graphs. Existing approaches fall into two paradigms: retrieval-based methods utilize small specialized models, which are efficient but often produce unreachable paths and miss implicit constraints, while agent-based methods utilize large general models, which achieve stronger structural grounding at substantially higher cost. We propose RouterKGQA, a framework for specialized--general model collaboration, in which a specialized model generates reasoning paths and a general model performs KG-guided repair only when needed, improving performance at minimal cost. We further equip the specialized with constraint-aware answer filtering, which reduces redundant answers. In addition, we design a more efficient general agent workflow, further lowering inference cost. Experimental results show that RouterKGQA outperforms the previous best by 3.57 points in F1 and 0.49 points in Hits@1 on average across benchmarks, while requiring only 1.15 average LLM calls per question. Codes and models are available at https://github.com/Oldcircle/RouterKGQA.

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arXiv ID: 2603.20017
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.CL
Published: 2026-03-20
Fetched: 2026-03-23 16:54

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