Beyond Linear Context: Graph-Guided Evidence Navigation for Long-Novel Reasoning with a Local 9B Language Model

📅 2026-09-19
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研究使用冻结的知识图谱辅助9B本地语言模型解决长篇小说推理问题,通过图引导证据导航提高多选题回答准确率。
📝 Abstract
Long-context models read a novel the way a person reads a printout: one token after another, in narrative order, with the whole history competing for a fixed budget of attention. A detective does not work that way. They sort what happened when, and they keep a map of who relates to whom, so a clue from chapter one can meet a question asked at the end of the book. We test whether a frozen knowledge graph can give a small local model that same freedom. Thirty detective novels and 234 multiple-choice questions are answered by one fixed qwen3.5:9b reader under nine conditions: five graph routes, a recent-window baseline, whole-book compression, ordinary vector retrieval, and a question-only control. The strongest graph route reaches 53.85% (126/234) against 46.15% for the recent window, 51.28% for compression, 51.71% for vector retrieval and 40.17% for question-only. On the subset that no model can answer without the book, the graph route reaches 42.86%. None of the fifteen graph-baseline contrasts survives Holm correction, so we present the result as exploratory evidence about a design. Two structural findings survive scrutiny better than the headline number: annotated evidence concentrates in the topological core of these graphs (2.35x enrichment, pooled), and the two graph-building pipelines differ so much in annotation coverage (16% versus 73% of clue paragraphs) that pooled accuracy alone would hide which bottleneck is being measured.
Problem

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Long-context models
Knowledge graph
Detective novels
Multiple-choice questions
Graph-guided navigation
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frozen knowledge graph
long-context reasoning
graph-guided evidence navigation
local language model
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Wenji Fu
Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics