聚焦医学问答中的关键知识区域,提升推理准确率。
ReGraM: Region-First Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Medical Question Answering
- 先构建与问题对齐的子图,再在局部区域逐步推理。
- 在7个基准上平均提升8.04%准确率,幻觉率降低42.9%。
- 适合需要高精度医疗问答的应用场景。
近年来,医学问答研究积极尝试将大语言模型(LLMs)与生物医学知识图谱(KGs)结合以提升事实准确性。然而,现有方法多依赖遍历整个知识图谱或进行大规模检索,引入大量噪声,导致多跳推理不稳定。我们认为核心挑战不在于扩大知识访问,而在于为每个问题识别并推理合适的证据子集。ReGraM是一种区域优先的知识图谱推理框架,通过构建与查询对齐的子图,并在多个感知证据模式下限制于该局部区域进行分步推理。通过仅聚焦知识图谱中最相关部分,ReGraM摒弃了所有关系等效有用的假设——这一假设在特定领域中很少成立。在七个医学问答基准上的实验表明,ReGraM持续优于强基线(KGARevion),在MCQ上实现8.04%的绝对准确率提升,在SAQ上提升4.50%,幻觉率降低42.9%。消融和定性分析进一步显示,区域构建与逐跳推理对齐是主要改进来源。总体而言,区域优先的图谱推理在提升医学问答的事实准确性和一致性方面表现有效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent studies in medical question answering (Medical QA) have actively explored the integration of large language models (LLMs) with biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) to improve factual accuracy. However, most existing approaches still rely on traversing the entire KG or performing large-scale retrieval, which introduces substantial noise and leads to unstable multi-hop reasoning. We argue that the core challenge lies not in expanding access to knowledge, but in identifying and reasoning over the appropriate subset of evidence for each query. ReGraM is a region-first knowledge graph reasoning framework that addresses this challenge by constructing a query-aligned subgraph and performing stepwise reasoning constrained to this localized region under multiple evidence aware modes. By focusing inference on only the most relevant portion of the KG, ReGraM departs from the assumption that all relations are equally useful an assumption that rarely holds in domain-specific medical settings. Experiments on seven medical QA benchmarks demonstrate that ReGraM consistently outperforms a strong baseline (KGARevion), achieving an 8.04% absolute accuracy gain on MCQ, a 4.50% gain on SAQ, and a 42.9% reduction in hallucination rate. Ablation and qualitative analyses further show that aligning region construction with hop-wise reasoning is the primary driver of these improvements. Overall, our results highlight region-first KG reasoning as an effective paradigm for improving factual accuracy and consistency in medical QA.
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