Rishi Puri

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3 Papers

44.9LGMay 21
Ex-GraphRAG: Interpretable Evidence Routing for Graph-Augmented LLMs

Yoav Kor Sade, Arvindh Arun, Rishi Puri et al.

GraphRAG conditions language models on subgraphs retrieved from knowledge graphs, encoded via message-passing GNNs. Because these encoders entangle node contributions through iterated neighborhood aggregation, there is no closed-form way to determine how much each retrieved entity influenced the encoder's output, and therefore no way to faithfully audit what structural evidence actually reached the model. We introduce Ex-GraphRAG, which replaces the GNN encoder with a Multivariate Graph Neural Additive Network (M-GNAN), an extension of additive graph models to high-dimensional embedding spaces that yields an exact decomposition of the encoder's output across individual nodes and feature groups, without post-hoc approximation. On STaRK-Prime, this auditable encoder matches black-box performance. Using it to audit evidence routing, we uncover a semantic-structural mismatch: the nodes that dominate the encoder's output are structurally disconnected in the retrieved subgraph, held together by low-attribution intermediaries whose removal degrades multi-hop QA by up to 28%. This mismatch, invisible to any opaque encoder, reveals that semantic importance and structural connectivity are governed by disjoint sets of nodes, with direct implications for retrieval pruning, context construction, and failure diagnosis in graph-augmented LLMs.

LGJul 22, 2025
PyG 2.0: Scalable Learning on Real World Graphs

Matthias Fey, Jinu Sunil, Akihiro Nitta et al.

PyG (PyTorch Geometric) has evolved significantly since its initial release, establishing itself as a leading framework for Graph Neural Networks. In this paper, we present Pyg 2.0 (and its subsequent minor versions), a comprehensive update that introduces substantial improvements in scalability and real-world application capabilities. We detail the framework's enhanced architecture, including support for heterogeneous and temporal graphs, scalable feature/graph stores, and various optimizations, enabling researchers and practitioners to tackle large-scale graph learning problems efficiently. Over the recent years, PyG has been supporting graph learning in a large variety of application areas, which we will summarize, while providing a deep dive into the important areas of relational deep learning and large language modeling.

IRJul 25, 2025
Query-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Vibhor Agrawal, Fay Wang, Rishi Puri

We present a novel graph neural network (GNN) architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that leverages query-aware attention mechanisms and learned scoring heads to improve retrieval accuracy on complex, multi-hop questions. Unlike traditional dense retrieval methods that treat documents as independent entities, our approach constructs per-episode knowledge graphs that capture both sequential and semantic relationships between text chunks. We introduce an Enhanced Graph Attention Network with query-guided pooling that dynamically focuses on relevant parts of the graph based on user queries. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms standard dense retrievers on complex question answering tasks, particularly for questions requiring multi-document reasoning. Our implementation leverages PyTorch Geometric for efficient processing of graph-structured data, enabling scalable deployment in production retrieval systems