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Query-Side Attacks on GNN-Based KGQA: Tracing Failures from Entity Linking to Answer Generation

Pankaj Kumar, Subhankar Mishra

Published

Aug 26, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Aug 26, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation. Standard robustness evaluations conflate stage-level failures into a single end-to-end metric, obscuring both the source of brittleness and the appropriate mitigation target. We ask which stage fails, and why, when the pipeline is subjected to adversarial perturbations on the input question. We introduce a stage-isolation protocol with two answer-preserving adversarial perturbations verified against the knowledge graph: Compositional Restructuring (CR) and Relation Synonym Swap (RS) target distinct stages while leaving entity seeds intact. Evaluated across ComplexWebQuestions and WebQSP, the results run counter to prevailing assumptions: the GNN reasoning stage retains near-baseline accuracy when the subgraph is intact, while subgraph construction accounts for over 99\% of the end-to-end collapse under CR, occurring even when the gold answer is present in 74\% of retrieved subgraphs. This exposes a fundamental distinction between answer presence and answer reachability that end-to-end metrics cannot detect, and places the mitigation target firmly at the subgraph construction stage rather than the reasoning model. Perturbed datasets and evaluation infrastructure are released at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/atkgrag-E85C .

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Evaluated across ComplexWebQuestions and WebQSP, the results run counter to prevailing assumptions: the GNN reasoning stage retains near-baseline accuracy when the subgraph is intact, while subgraph construction accounts for over 99\% of the end-to-end collapse under CR, occurring even when the gold answer is present in 74\% of retrieved subgraphs."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • GNN-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) pipelines process queries through four discrete stages: entity linking, subgraph retrieval, GNN reasoning, and answer generation.
  • Standard robustness evaluations conflate stage-level failures into a single end-to-end metric, obscuring both the source of brittleness and the appropriate mitigation target.
  • We ask which stage fails, and why, when the pipeline is subjected to adversarial perturbations on the input question.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Standard robustness evaluations conflate stage-level failures into a single end-to-end metric, obscuring both the source of brittleness and the appropriate mitigation target.
  • We introduce a stage-isolation protocol with two answer-preserving adversarial perturbations verified against the knowledge graph: Compositional Restructuring (CR) and Relation Synonym Swap (RS) target distinct stages while leaving entity…
  • Perturbed datasets and evaluation infrastructure are released at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/atkgrag-E85C .

Why it matters for eval

  • Standard robustness evaluations conflate stage-level failures into a single end-to-end metric, obscuring both the source of brittleness and the appropriate mitigation target.
  • Perturbed datasets and evaluation infrastructure are released at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/atkgrag-E85C .

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy