Exploration-and-Thinking: Agentic Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs via an LLM-RL Synergized Framework.

@inproceedings{oosterhuis-2026-explorationandthinking, author = {Harrie Oosterhuis and Yi Xia and Gang Zhou and David J. Harper and Xiaohui Chen and Harrie Oosterhuis and Yi Xia and Jing Chen and Qinlong Fan and Stuart N. K. Watt and David J. Harper and Xiaohui Chen and Qinlong Fan and Stuart N. K. Watt and Ivan Kovacek and Shunhang Li and Ivan Kovacek and Shunhang Li}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Exploration-and-Thinking: Agentic Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs via an LLM-RL Synergized Framework}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2049--2060}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809649}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809649} }