@inproceedings{huang-etal-2025-sce,
    title = "{SCE}: Semantic Consistency Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph Reasoning",
    author = "Huang, Yanwen  and
      Liu, Yao  and
      Liu, Qiao  and
      Hou, Rui  and
      Dai, Tingting",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/author-page-yu-wang-polytechnic/2025.findings-emnlp.289/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.289",
    pages = "5413--5425",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-335-7",
    abstract = "Multi-hop reasoning with reinforcement learning has proven effective in discovering inference paths in incomplete knowledge graphs. However, a major challenge remains: spurious paths (incorrect reasoning paths that accidentally lead to correct answers) often arise due to reward mechanisms that prioritize final results over reasoning quality. While existing approaches attempt to mitigate this issue using external rules, they often neglect the internal semantic consistency between the target triple and the intermediate triples along the reasoning path. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, $\textbf{S}$emantic $\textbf{C}$onsistency $\textbf{E}$nhanced Reinforcement Learning (SCE), which incorporates semantic consistency into the reward function to guide multi-hop reasoning. Experimental results demonstrate that SCE outperforms strong baseline methods and facilitates the discovery of more interpretable reasoning paths."
}