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title = "{G}-{H}i{R}el: Enhancing the Adaption to Knowledge Updating for Large Language Model Reasoning",
author = "Pan, Yudai and
Hong, Jiajie and
Zhao, Tianzhe and
Song, Lingyun and
Zhang, Lingling and
Chen, Yixin and
Shang, Xuequn",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
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abstract = "Large language models (LLMs) have achieved good performance in multiple reasoning tasks. However, they are limited to adapt the rapid knowledge updates in the real-world scenario without retraining the entire LLM or modifying the model weights. Excluding these consuming methods, knowledge graphs (KGs) are used as external memory under knowledge updating because of their structural knowledge and efficient updating ability, which is yet limited by the gap between structural KG and LLM, and the deficient entity-independent semantics. To this end, we propose an LLM reasoning framework with hierarchical relational retrieval for large-scale knowledge updating, named G-HiRel. To integrate the structural edited KG into continuous LLMs, G-HiRel generates hierarchical instructions based on natural language questions. In order to handle the knowledge inconsistency between the KG and LLM and obtain the entity independence, G-HiRel utilizes a designed hierarchical relational retrieval for relational path candidates, which are selected by a designed semantics-based strategy. Finally, top entity-independent relational paths are instantiated and integrated into LLMs to generate the answer, in order to verify the reasoning performance under knowledge edits. Extensive experiments of G-HiRel on three benchmarks show that G-HiRel achieves superiority in terms of accuracy and interpretability. The code of G-HiRel is available at the link: https://github.com/HJJ-designed/G-HiRel."
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%A Pan, Yudai
%A Hong, Jiajie
%A Zhao, Tianzhe
%A Song, Lingyun
%A Zhang, Lingling
%A Chen, Yixin
%A Shang, Xuequn
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
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%X Large language models (LLMs) have achieved good performance in multiple reasoning tasks. However, they are limited to adapt the rapid knowledge updates in the real-world scenario without retraining the entire LLM or modifying the model weights. Excluding these consuming methods, knowledge graphs (KGs) are used as external memory under knowledge updating because of their structural knowledge and efficient updating ability, which is yet limited by the gap between structural KG and LLM, and the deficient entity-independent semantics. To this end, we propose an LLM reasoning framework with hierarchical relational retrieval for large-scale knowledge updating, named G-HiRel. To integrate the structural edited KG into continuous LLMs, G-HiRel generates hierarchical instructions based on natural language questions. In order to handle the knowledge inconsistency between the KG and LLM and obtain the entity independence, G-HiRel utilizes a designed hierarchical relational retrieval for relational path candidates, which are selected by a designed semantics-based strategy. Finally, top entity-independent relational paths are instantiated and integrated into LLMs to generate the answer, in order to verify the reasoning performance under knowledge edits. Extensive experiments of G-HiRel on three benchmarks show that G-HiRel achieves superiority in terms of accuracy and interpretability. The code of G-HiRel is available at the link: https://github.com/HJJ-designed/G-HiRel.
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Markdown (Informal)
[G-HiRel: Enhancing the Adaption to Knowledge Updating for Large Language Model Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1561/) (Pan et al., Findings 2026)
ACL
- Yudai Pan, Jiajie Hong, Tianzhe Zhao, Lingyun Song, Lingling Zhang, Yixin Chen, and Xuequn Shang. 2026. G-HiRel: Enhancing the Adaption to Knowledge Updating for Large Language Model Reasoning. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 31190–31207, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.