EAGER: Multi-Hop Reasoning with LLMs: A Structure-Guided Reasoning Approach

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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have been revolutionizing recent artificial intelligence research and applications. To empower complex reasoning and avoid hallucinations in special domain-focused problem-solving, LLMs need to incorporate updated and specialized data wisely and effectively. This project proposes a structure-guided reasoning approach for multi-hop, complex reasoning with LLMs. More concretely, it proposes to develop a retrieving-structuring-reasoning framework: (1) retrieving task-focused data and information, (2) structuring the retrieved data and knowledge, and (3) reasoning on the structured data and knowledge. Each task will need to explore the power of LLMs and develop efficient and effective LLM-integrated methods. The project will lead to the development of new algorithms for information retrieval, data and knowledge structuring, and structure-guided reasoning. The new methodologies generated will be broadly applicable across the fields of data science. Moreover, this research will support the cross-disciplinary development of a diverse cohort of doctoral and undergraduate students on both research and education at the University of Illinois. The technical aims of the project are divided into three thrusts. The first thrust, Retrieving, develops user- or task- query guided, theme-specific information retrieval to collect theme-specific documents, by developing effective methods for corpus-based, domain-specific multi-class text classification, knowledg

Key facts

NSF award ID
2537827
Awardee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL)
SAM.gov UEI
Y8CWNJRCNN91
PI
Jiawei Han
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
INFO INTEGRATION & INFORMATICS, EAGER
Estimated total
$300,000
Funds obligated
$300,000
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
09/01/2025 → 08/31/2027