GRASP: Graph-Reasoning Aided Survey Planning for High-Fidelity Related Work Generation

Haoming Li, Jessica Ouyang


Abstract
Writing a literature review requires a deep understanding of the relationships among cited papers: how they build on, challenge, or offer alternative perspectives to one another. We present Graph-Reasoning Aided Survey Planning (GRASP), a framework combining LLM planning for related work generation with graph algorithms to extract key relationships among cited papers. Our two-layer graph structure consists of a Graph of Thoughts and an Argument-Counteragument Planning Network, representing the cited papers at different levels of granularity, and we apply topology-aware pruning via a Steiner tree to identify the core inter-paper relationships captured in our graph. Our citation analysis-based evaluation shows that GRASP generates RWS that closely match human-written targets in terms of the discourse roles, intents, and grouping of citations.
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2026.findings-acl.1815
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
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2026
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San Diego, California, United States
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Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
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Haoming Li and Jessica Ouyang. 2026. GRASP: Graph-Reasoning Aided Survey Planning for High-Fidelity Related Work Generation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 36427–36449, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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