IRAIDec 18, 2025

Microsoft Academic Graph Information Retrieval for Research Recommendation and Assistance

arXiv:2512.16661v2h-index: 1
Originality Synthesis-oriented
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This addresses the problem of information overload for researchers by providing a more efficient retrieval system, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing GNN and LLM methods.

The paper tackles the challenge of filtering massive scientific publications by proposing an Attention-Based Subgraph Retriever that uses GNNs and attention mechanisms to extract refined subgraphs for large language models, resulting in improved information retrieval for research recommendation.

In today's information-driven world, access to scientific publications has become increasingly easy. At the same time, filtering through the massive volume of available research has become more challenging than ever. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and graph attention mechanisms have shown strong effectiveness in searching large-scale information databases, particularly when combined with modern large language models. In this paper, we propose an Attention-Based Subgraph Retriever, a GNN-as-retriever model that applies attention-based pruning to extract a refined subgraph, which is then passed to a large language model for advanced knowledge reasoning.

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