Andrea Volpini

Learning the Map, Not the Route: Curriculum, Capacity, and Transfer in Tool-Navigating Language Models

We compare what language models learn from knowledge-graph navigation traces, which query a graph with tools and end in a machine-verifiable evidence path, and from free-form chain-of-thought distilled from a teacher (free-CoT). In a pre-registered study of 0.6B to 14B models on a synthetic, SHACL-governed kinship benc...