𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭.. 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭.. This masterpiece was published by Salvatore Raieli and Gabriele Iuculano, and it is available for orders from today, and it's already a 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫! While many resources focus on LLMs or basic agentic workflows, what makes this book stand out is its deep dive into grounding LLMs with real-world data and action through the powerful combination of 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭-𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘙𝘈𝘎) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘴. This isn't just about building Agents; it's about building AI that reasons, retrieves accurate information, and acts autonomously by leveraging structured knowledge alongside advanced LLMs. The book offers a practical roadmap, packed with concrete Python examples and real-world case studies, guiding you from concept to deployment of intelligent, robust, and hallucination-minimized AI solutions, even orchestrating multi-agent systems. Order your copy here - https://packt.link/RpzGM #AI #LLMs #KnowledgeGraphs #AIAgents #RAG #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning

Design infrastructure for a generative AI application with GraphRAG using Spanner Graph.

I've been working on autonomous AI systems, and wanted to share some thoughts on what I believe makes them effective. The challenge isn't just making AI that follows instructions well, but creating systems that can reason, and act independently.

LLMs already contain overlapping world models. You just have to ask them right. Ontologists reply to an LLM output, “That’s not a real ontology—it’s not a formal conceptualization.” But that’s just the No True Scotsman fallacy dressed up in OWL. Boring. Not growth-oriented. Look forward, angel. A foundation model is a compression of human knowledge. The real problem isn't that we "lack a conceptualization". The real problem with an FM is that they contain too many. FMs contain conceptualizations—plural. Messy? Sure. But usable. At Stardog, we’re turning this latent structure into real ontologies using symbolic knowledge distillation. Prompt orchestration → structure extraction → formal encoding. OWL, SHACL, and friends. Shake till mixed. Rinse. Repeat. Secret sauce simmered and reduced. This isn't theoretical hard. We avoid that. It’s merely engineering hard. We LTF into that! But the payoff means bootstrapping rich, new ontologies at scale: faster, cheaper, with lineage. It's the intersection of FM latent space, formal ontology, and user intent expressed via CQs. We call it the Symbolic Latent Layer (SLL). Cute eh? The future of enterprise AI isn’t just documents. It’s distilling structured symbolic knowledge from LLMs and plugging it into agents, workflows, and reasoning engines. You don’t need a priesthood to get a formal ontology anymore. You need a good prompt and a smarter pipeline and the right EKG platform. There's a lot more to say about this so I said it at Stardog Labs https://lnkd.in/eY5Sibed | 17 comments on LinkedIn

Graph is the new star schema. Change my mind. Why? Your agents can't be autonomous unless your structured data is a graph. It is really very simple. 1️⃣ To act autonomously, an agent must reason across structured data. Every autonomous decision - human or agent - hinges on a judgment: have I done enough? “Enough" boils down to driving the probability of success over some threshold. 2️⃣ You can’t just point the agent at your structured data store. Context windows are too small. Schema sprawl is too real. If you think it works, you probably haven’t tried it. 3️⃣ Agent must first retrieve - with RAG - the right tables, columns, and snippets. Decision making is a retrieval problem before it’s a reasoning problem. 4️⃣ Standard RAG breaks on enterprise metadata. The corpus is too entity-rich. Semantic similarity is breaking on enterprise help articles - it won't perform on column descriptions. 5️⃣ To make structured RAG work, you need a graph. Just like unstructured RAG needed links between articles, structured RAG needs links between tables, fields, and - most importantly - meaning. Yes, graphs are painful. But so was deep learning—until the return was undeniable. Agents need reasoning over structured data. That makes graphs non-optional. The rest is just engineering. Let’s stop modeling for reporting—and start modeling for autonomy. | 28 comments on LinkedIn

❓ How can you turn business questions into production-ready agentic knowledge graphs? Join Prashanth Rao and Dennis Irorere at the Agentic AI Summit to find out. Prashanth is an AI Engineer and DevRel lead at Kùzu Inc.—the open-source graph database startup—where he blends NLP, ML, and data engineering to power agentic workflows. Dennis is a Data Engineer at Tripadvisor’s Viator Marketing Technology team and Director of Innovation at GraphGeeks, driving scalable, AI-driven graph solutions for customer growth. In “Agentic Workflows for Graph RAG: Building Production-Ready Knowledge Graphs,” they’ll guide you through three hands-on lessons: 🔹 From Business Question to Graph Schema – Modeling your domain for downstream agents and LLMs, using live data sources like AskNews. 🔹 From Unstructured Data to Agent-Ready Graphs with BAML – Writing declarative pipelines that reliably extract entities and relationships at scale. 🔹 Agentic Graph RAG in Action – Completing the loop: translating NL queries into Cypher, retrieving graph data, and synthesizing responses—with fallback strategies when matches are missing. If you’re building internal tools or public-facing AI agents that rely on knowledge graphs, this workshop is for you. 🗓️ Learn more & register free: https://hubs.li/Q03qHnpQ0 #AgenticAI #GraphRAG #KnowledgeGraphs #AgentWorkflows #AIEngineering #ODSC #Kuzu #Tripadvisor

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HippoRAG is a technique inspired from the interactions between the cortex and hippocampus to improve knowledge retrieval for large language models (LLM).

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📣 AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: GraphRAG Track Spotlight! 🚀 So grateful to have hosted the GraphRAG Track at the Fair. The sessions were great, highlighting the depth and breadth of graph thinking for AI. Shoutouts to... - Mitesh Patel "HybridRAG" as a fusion of graph and vector retrieval designed to master complex data interpretation and specialized terminology for question answering - Chin Keong Lam "Wisdom Discovery at Scale" using Knowledge Augmented Generation (KAG) in a multi agent system with n8n - Sam Julien "When Vectors Break Down" carefully explaining how graph-based RAG architecture achieved a whopping 86.31% accuracy for dense enterprise knowledge - Daniel Chalef "Stop Using RAG as Memory" explored temporally-aware knowledge graphs, built by the open-source Graphiti framework, to provide precise, context-rich memory for agents, - Ola Mabadeje "Witness the power of Multi-Agent AI & Network Knowledge Graphs" showing dramatic improvements in ticket resolution efficiency and overall execution quality in network operations. - Thomas Smoker "Beyond Documents"! casually mentioning scraping the entire internet to distill a knowledge graph focused with legal agents - Mark Bain hosting an excellent Agentic Memory with Knowledge Graphs lunch&learn, with expansive thoughts and demos from Vasilije Markovic Daniel Chalef and Alexander Gilmore Also, of course, huge congrats to Shawn swyx W and Benjamin Dunphy on an excellent conference. 🎩 #graphrag Neo4j AI Engineer

Want to Fix LLM Hallucination? Neurosymbolic Alone Won’t Cut It The Conversation’s new piece makes a clear case for neurosymbolic AI—integrating symbolic logic with statistical learning—as the long-term fix for LLM hallucinations. It’s a timely and necessary argument: “No matter how large a language model gets, it can’t escape its fundamental lack of grounding in rules, logic, or real-world structure. Hallucination isn’t a bug, it’s the default.” But what’s crucial—and often glossed over—is that symbolic logic alone isn’t enough. The real leap comes from adding formal ontologies and semantic constraints that make meaning machine-computable. OWL, Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL), and frameworks like BFO, Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering (DOLCE), the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), and the Common Core Ontologies (CCO) don’t just “represent rules”—they define what exists, what can relate, and under what conditions inference is valid. That’s the difference between “decorating” a knowledge graph and engineering one that can detect, explain, and prevent hallucinations in practice. I’d go further: • Most enterprise LLM hallucinations are just semantic errors—mislabeling, misattribution, or class confusion that only formal ontologies can prevent. • Neurosymbolic systems only deliver if their symbolic half is grounded in ontological reality, not just handcrafted rules or taxonomies. The upshot: We need to move beyond mere integration of symbols and neurons. We need semantic scaffolding—ontologies as infrastructure—to ensure AI isn’t just fluent, but actually right. Curious if others are layering formal ontologies (BFO, DOLCE, SUMO) into their AI stacks yet? Or are we still hoping that more compute and prompt engineering will do the trick? #NeuroSymbolicAI #SemanticAI #Ontology #LLMs #AIHallucination #KnowledgeGraphs #AITrust #AIReasoning

I'm happy to share the draft of the "Semantically Composable Architectures" mini-paper. It is the culmination of approximately four years' work, which began with Coreless Architectures and has now evolved into something much bigger. LLMs are impressive, but a real breakthrough will occur once we surpass the cognitive capabilities of a single human brain. Enabling autonomous large-scale system reverse engineering and large-scale autonomous transformation with minimal to no human involvement, while still making it understandable to humans if they choose to, is a central pillar of making truly groundbreaking changes. We hope the ideas we shared will be beneficial to humanity and advance our civilization further. It is not final and will require some clarification and improvements, but the key concepts are present. Happy to hear your thoughts and feedback. Some of these concepts underpin the design of the Product X system. Part of the core team + external contribution: Andrew Barsukov Andrey Kolodnitsky Sapta Girisa N Keith E. Glendon Gurpreet Sachdeva Saurav Chandra Mike Diachenko Oleh Sinkevych | 13 comments on LinkedIn

Want to explore the Anthropic Transformer-Circuit's as a queryable graph? Wrote a script to import the graph json into Neo4j - code in Gist. https://lnkd.in/eT4NjQgY https://lnkd.in/e38TfQpF Next step - write directly from the circuit-tracer library to the graph db. https://lnkd.in/eVU_t6mS

Introducing FACT: Fast Augmented Context Tools (3.2x faster, 90% cost reduction vs RAG) RAG had its run, but it’s not built for agentic systems. Vectors are fuzzy, slow, and blind to context. They work fine for static data, but once you enter recursive, real-time workflows, where agents need to reason, act, and reflect. RAG collapses under its own ambiguity. That’s why I built FACT: Fast Augmented Context Tools. Traditional Approach: User Query → Database → Processing → Response (2-5 seconds) FACT Approach: User Query → Intelligent Cache → [If Miss] → Optimized Processing → Response (50ms) It replaces vector search in RAG pipelines with a combination of intelligent prompt caching and deterministic tool execution via MCP. Instead of guessing which chunk is relevant, FACT explicitly retrieves structured data, SQL queries, live APIs, internal tools, then intelligently caches the result if it’s useful downstream. The prompt caching isn’t just basic storage. It’s intelligent using the prompt cache from Anthropic and other LLM providers, tuned for feedback-driven loops: static elements get reused, transient ones expire, and the system adapts in real time. Some things you always want cached, schemas, domain prompts. Others, like live data, need freshness. Traditional RAG is particularly bad at this. Ask anyone force to frequently update vector DBs. I'm also using Arcade.dev to handle secure, scalable execution across both local and cloud environments, giving FACT hybrid intelligence for complex pipelines and automatic tool selection. If you're building serious agents, skip the embeddings. RAG is a workaround. FACT is a foundation. It’s cheaper, faster, and designed for how agents actually work: with tools, memory, and intent. To get started point your favorite coding agent at: https://lnkd.in/gek_akem | 38 comments on LinkedIn

🏯🏇 A-MEM Transforms AI Agent Memory with Zettelkasten Method, Atomic Notes, Dynamic Linking & Continuous Evolution! This Novel Memory fixes rigid structures with adaptable, evolving, and interconnected knowledge networks, delivering 2x performance in complex reasoning tasks. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱: ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ 》 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 Most AI agents today rely on simplistic storage and retrieval but break down when faced with complex, multi-step reasoning tasks. ✸ Common Limitations: ☆ Fixed schemas: Conventional memory systems require predefined structures that limit flexibility. ☆ Limited adaptability: When new information arises, old memories remain static and disconnected, reducing an agent’s ability to build on past experiences. ☆ Ineffective long-term retention: AI agents often struggle to recall relevant past interactions, leading to redundant processing and inefficiencies. ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ 》𝗔-𝗠𝗘𝗠: 𝗔𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 A-MEM organizes knowledge in a way that mirrors how humans create and refine ideas over time. ✸ How it Works: ☆ Atomic notes: Information is broken down into small, self-contained knowledge units, ensuring clarity and easy integration with future knowledge. ☆ Dynamic linking: Instead of relying on static categories, A-MEM automatically creates connections between related knowledge, forming a network of interrelated ideas. ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ 》 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 A-MEM delivers measurable improvements. ✸ Empirical results demonstrate: ☆ Over 2x performance improvement in complex reasoning tasks, where AI must synthesize multiple pieces of information across different timeframes. ☆ Superior efficiency across top foundation models, including GPT, Llama, and Qwen—proving its versatility and broad applicability. ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ 》 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗔-𝗠𝗘𝗠 ✸ Note Construction: ☆ AI-generated structured notes that capture essential details and contextual insights. ☆ Each memory is assigned metadata, including keywords and summaries, for faster retrieval. ✸ Link Generation: ☆ The system autonomously connects new memories to relevant past knowledge. ☆ Relationships between concepts emerge naturally, allowing AI to recognize patterns over time. ✸ Memory Evolution: ☆ Older memories are continuously updated as new insights emerge. ☆ The system dynamically refines knowledge structures, mimicking the way human memory strengthens connections over time. ≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣ ⫸ꆛ Want to build Real-World AI agents? Join My 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟰-𝗶𝗻-𝟭 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 TODAY! 𝟰𝟴𝟬+ already Enrolled. ➠ Build Real-World AI Agents for Healthcare, Finance,Smart Cities,Sales ➠ Learn 4 Framework: LangGraph | PydanticAI | CrewAI | OpenAI Swarm ➠ Work with Text, Audio, Video and Tabular Data 👉𝗘𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗢𝗪 (𝟰𝟱% 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁): https://lnkd.in/eGuWr4CH | 27 comments on LinkedIn

RAG vs Graph RAG, explained visually. (it's a popular LLM interview question) Imagine you have a long document, say a biography, about an individual (X) who has accomplished several things in this life. ↳ Chapter 1: Talks about Accomplishment-1. ↳ Chapter 2: Talks about Accomplishment-2. ... ↳ Chapter 10: Talks about Accomplishment-10. Summarizing all these accomplishments via RAG might never be possible since... ...it must require the entire context... ...but one might only be fetching the top-k relevant chunks from the vector db. Moreover, since traditional RAG systems retrieve each chunk independently, this can often leave the LLM to infer the connections between them (provided the chunks are retrieved). Graph RAG solves this. The idea is to first create a graph (entities & relationships) from the documents and then do traversal over that graph during the retrieval phase. See how Graph RAG solves the above problems. - First, a system (typically an LLM) will create the graph by understanding the biography. - This will produce a full graph of nodes entities & relationships, and a subgraph will look like this: ↳ X → → Accomplishment-1. ↳ X → → Accomplishment-2. ... ↳ X → → Accomplishment-N. When summarizing these accomplishments, the retrieval phase can do a graph traversal to fetch all the relevant context related to X's accomplishments. This context, when passed to the LLM, will produce a more coherent and complete answer as opposed to traditional RAG. Another reason why Graph RAG systems are so effective is because LLMs are inherently adept at reasoning with structured data. Graph RAG instills that structure into them with their retrieval mechanism. 👉 Over to you: What are some other issues with traditional RAG systems that Graph RAG solves? ____ Find me → Avi Chawla Every day, I share tutorials and insights on DS, ML, LLMs, and RAGs. | 24 comments on LinkedIn

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Structuring legal information as a knowledge graph to increase answer accuracy using a LangGraph agent

LLMs generate possibilities; knowledge graphs remember what works. Together, they forge the recursive memory and creative engine that enables AI systems to truly evolve themselves. Combining neural components (like large language models) with symbolic verification creates a powerful framework for self-evolution that overcomes limitations of either approach used independently. AlphaEvolve demonstrates that self-evolving systems face a fundamental tension between generating novel solutions and ensuring those solutions actually work. The paper shows how AlphaEvolve addresses this through a hybrid architecture where: Neural components (LLMs) provide creative generation of code modifications by drawing on patterns learned from vast training data Symbolic components (code execution) provide ground truth verification through deterministic evaluation Without this combination, a system would either generate interesting but incorrect solutions (neural-only approach) or be limited to small, safe modifications within known patterns (symbolic-only approach). The system can operate at multiple levels of abstraction depending on the problem: raw solution evolution, constructor function evolution, search algorithm evolution, or co-evolution of intermediate solutions and search algorithms. This capability emanates directly from the neurosymbolic integration, where: Neural networks excel at working with continuous, high-dimensional spaces and recognizing patterns across abstraction levels Symbolic systems provide precise representations of discrete structures and logical relationships This enables AlphaEvolve to modify everything from specific lines of code to entire algorithmic approaches. While AlphaEvolve currently uses an evolutionary database, a knowledge graph structure could significantly enhance self-evolution by: Capturing evolutionary relationships between solutions Identifying patterns of code changes that consistently lead to improvements Representing semantic connections between different solution approaches Supporting transfer learning across problem domains Automated, objective evaluation is the core foundation enabling self-evolution: The main limitation of AlphaEvolve is that it handles problems for which it is possible to devise an automated evaluator. This evaluation component provides the "ground truth" feedback that guides evolution, allowing the system to: Differentiate between successful and unsuccessful modifications Create selection pressure toward better-performing solutions Avoid hallucinations or non-functional solutions that might emerge from neural components alone. When applied to optimize Gemini's training kernels, the system essentially improved the very LLM technology that powers it. | 12 comments on LinkedIn

Imagine you’re handed a mountain of books in a language you barely speak. Traditional RAG systems do just that: they treat every text…

Perhaps you’ve come across the paper From Local to Global: A GraphRAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization, which is Microsoft…

NodeRAG restructures knowledge into a heterograph: a rich, layered, musical graph where each node plays a different role. It’s not just smarter retrieval. It’s structured memory for AI agents. 》 Why NodeRAG? Most Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods retrieve chunks of text. Good enough — until you need reasoning, precision, and multi-hop understanding. This is how NodeRAG solves these problems: 》 🔹Step 1: Graph Decomposition NodeRAG begins by decomposing raw text into smart building blocks: ✸ Semantic Units (S): Little event nuggets ("Hinton won the Nobel Prize.") ✸ Entities (N): Key names or concepts ("Hinton", "Nobel Prize") ✸ Relationships (R): Links between entities ("awarded to") ✩ This is like teaching your AI to recognize the actors, actions, and scenes inside any document. 》 🔹Step 2: Graph Augmentation Decomposition alone isn't enough. NodeRAG augments the graph by identifying important hubs: ✸ Node Importance: Using K-Core and Betweenness Centrality to find critical nodes ✩ Important entities get special attention — their attributes are summarized into new nodes (A). ✸ Community Detection: Grouping related nodes into communities and summarizing them into high-level insights (H). ✩ Each community gets a "headline" overview node (O) for quick retrieval. It's like adding context and intuition to raw facts. 》 🔹 Step 3: Graph Enrichment Knowledge without detail is brittle. So NodeRAG enriches the graph: ✸ Original Text: Full chunks are linked back into the graph (Text nodes, T) ✸ Semantic Edges: Using HNSW for fast, meaningful similarity connections ✩ Only smart nodes are embedded (not everything!) — saving huge storage space. ✩ Dual search (exact + vector) makes retrieval laser-sharp. It’s like turning a 2D map into a 3D living world. 》 🔹 Step 4: Graph Searching Now comes the magic. ✸ Dual Search: First find strong entry points (by name or by meaning) ✸ Shallow Personalized PageRank (PPR): Expand carefully from entry points to nearby relevant nodes. ✩ No wandering into irrelevant parts of the graph. The search is surgical. ✩ Retrieval includes fine-grained semantic units, attributes, high-level elements — everything you need, nothing you don't. It’s like sending out agents into a city — and they return not with everything they saw, but exactly what you asked for, summarized and structured. 》 Results: NodeRAG's Performance Compared to GraphRAG, LightRAG, NaiveRAG, and HyDE — NodeRAG wins across every major domain: Tech, Science, Writing, Recreation, and Finance. NodeRAG isn’t just a better graph. NodeRAG is a new operating system for memory. ≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣≣ ⫸ꆛ Want to build Real-World AI agents? Join My 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 TODAY! ➠ Build Real-World AI Agents + RAG Pipelines ➠ Learn 3 Tools: LangGraph/LangChain | CrewAI | OpenAI Swarm ➠ Work with Text, Audio, Video and Tabular Data 👉𝗘𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗢𝗪 (𝟯𝟰% 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁): https://lnkd.in/eGuWr4CH | 20 comments on LinkedIn

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases GraphRAG (GraphRAG), a capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with graph data in Amazon Neptune Analytics. In this post, we discuss the benefits of GraphRAG and how to get started with it in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

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