Think Parallax: Solving Multi-Hop Problems via Multi-View Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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Authors: Jinliang Liu, Jiale Bai, Shaoning Zeng
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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with multi-hop reasoning over knowledgegraphs (KGs), and we identify a previously overlooked structural reason for this difficulty: Transformer attention heads naturally specialize in distinct semantic relations across reasoning stages, forming a hop-aligned relay pattern.This key finding suggests that multi-hop reasoning is inherently multi-view, yet existing KG-based retrieval-augmented generation (KG-RAG) systems collapse all reasoning hops into a single representation, flat embedding space, suppressing this implicit structure and causing noisy or drifted path exploration.We introduce ParallaxRAG, a symmetric multi-view framework that decouples queries and KGs into aligned, head-specific semantic spaces.By enforcing relational diversity across multiple heads while constraining weakly related paths, ParallaxRAG constructs more accurate, cleaner subgraphs and guides LLMs through grounded, hop-wise reasoning.On WebQSP and CWQ, it achieves state-of-the-art retrieval and QA performance, substantially reduces hallucination, and generalizes strongly to the biomedical BioASQ benchmark.Our implementation is available at https://github.com/ LucaLiu1313/ParallaxRAG.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topic Modeling Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
26637–26655
Publication date
1 January 2026