LogosKG: Hardware-Optimized Scalable and Interpretable Knowledge Graph Retrieval

He Cheng, Yifu Wu, Saksham Khatwani, Maya Kruse, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy A. Miller, Majid Afshar, Yanjun Gao


Abstract
Knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly integrated with large language models (LLMs) to provide structured, verifiable reasoning. A core operation in this integration is multi-hop retrieval, yet existing systems struggle to balance efficiency, scalability, and interpretability. We introduce LogosKG, a novel, hardware-aligned framework that enables scalable and interpretable k-hop retrieval on large KGs by building on symbolic KG formulations and executing traversal as hardware-efficient operations over decomposed subject, object, and relation representations. To scale to billion-edge graphs, LogosKG integrates degree-aware partitioning, cross-graph routing, and on-demand caching. Experiments show substantial efficiency gains over CPU and GPU baselines without loss of retrieval fidelity. With proven performance in KG retrieval, a downstream two-round KG-LLM interaction demonstrates how LogosKG enables large-scale, evidence-grounded analysis of how KG topology, such as hop distribution and connectivity, shapes the alignment between structured biomedical knowledge and LLM diagnostic reasoning, thereby opening the door for next-generation KG-LLM integration. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/LARK-NLP-Lab/LogosKG, and an online demo is available at https://lark-nlp-lab-logoskg.hf.space/.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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2026
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Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang, David Jurgens
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He Cheng, Yifu Wu, Saksham Khatwani, Maya Kruse, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy A. Miller, Majid Afshar, and Yanjun Gao. 2026. LogosKG: Hardware-Optimized Scalable and Interpretable Knowledge Graph Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 42478–42493, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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