Adaptive Graph of Thoughts (AGoT), a test-time framework that replaces rigid prompting strategies (like Chain/Tree of Thought) with dynamic directed acyclic graphs
Dynamic Reasoning Graphs + LLMs = 🤝
Large Language Models (LLMs) often stumble on complex tasks when confined to linear reasoning.
What if they could dynamically restructure their thought process like humans?
A new paper introduces Adaptive Graph of Thoughts (AGoT), a test-time framework that replaces rigid prompting strategies (like Chain/Tree of Thought) with dynamic directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).
Instead of forcing fixed reasoning steps, AGoT recursively decomposes problems into sub-tasks, selectively expanding only the most critical pathways.
This is crucial for industries like scientific research or legal analysis, where problems demand non-linear, nested reasoning.
The key innovation lies in complexity checks: AGoT assesses each reasoning node, spawning sub-graphs for intricate subtasks while resolving simpler ones directly.
This mirrors how experts allocate mental effort—drilling into uncertainties while streamlining obvious steps.
The framework achieved 46.2% improvement on GPQA (a notoriously hard science QA benchmark), rivaling gains from compute-heavy fine-tuning.
By unifying chain, tree, and graph paradigms, AGoT retains CoT’s clarity, ToT’s exploration, and GoT’s flexibility without manual tuning.
The result? LLMs that self-adapt their reasoning depth based on problem complexity—no architectural changes needed.
For AI practitioners, AGoT’s DAG structure offers a principled interface to scale reasoning modularly.
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Adaptive Graph of Thoughts (AGoT), a test-time framework that replaces rigid prompting strategies (like Chain/Tree of Thought) with dynamic directed acyclic graphs