{
  "id": 9463038,
  "title": "The Path Matters: Evaluating Small Language Models Beyond Answer Accuracy in KGQA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/the-path-matters-evaluating-small-language-models-beyond-answer",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-23T10:38:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27669v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Small language models (SLMs) are increasingly paired with knowledge graphs (KGs), yet end-to-end KG question answering conflates graph access, search, navigation, reasoning, and answer generation. This coupling makes it difficult both to determine whether an SLM can faithfully execute the reasoning path implied by a question and to attribute failures to navigation rather than to other stages of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}