A Knowledge Graph Multi-Hop Question Answering Method Based on Adaptive Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Multi-hop question answering (MQA) requires models to perform multi-step reasoning and integrate multiple knowledge sources. However, existing methods combining pre-trained language models (PLMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) often suffer from low computational efficiency, insufficient deep semantic fusion, and imbalanced modeling of heterogeneous relations. To solve these problems, we propose a Dynamic Hierarchical Adaptive Graph Convolution Network (DHACNet). First, to deal with the issues of insufficient computational efficiency and feature interpretability, we introduce Dynamic Sparse Activation (DSA). A trainable gate unit is used to generate importance masks for the encoder outputs, keeping only the task-relevant neurons. This greatly decreases the computational burden and enhances the interpretability of the model’s decisions. Second, to alleviate insufficient deep semantic fusion, we design a Hierarchical Feature Fusion (HFF) mechanism. It adaptively weights and fuses hidden states from different layers, enhancing the extraction and representation of deep textual semantics. Furthermore, for graph structure modeling, we present Adaptive Graph Convolution (AGC), which assigns learnable weights to different edge types in the graph, thereby improving heterogeneous relation modeling. Finally, hierarchical graph pooling is introduced, which integrates attention mechanism and Top-K selection to achieve efficient and robust graph-level representation. The experimental results show that our proposed model maintains the symmetry between the text representation and graph representation through adaptive layered fusion and relational perceptual graph propagation. This symmetry-aware reasoning process encourages semantic consistency during multi-hop inference and makes knowledge integration more robust.
Source: Symmetry
DOI: 10.3390/sym18061048
Authors: Cheng Gan, Yuhang Cai, Shenyi Qian, Songhe Jin, Bowen Fu, Tongxin Zhao, Daiyi Li
Institution: Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,896
OpenAlex ID: W7165025196