Plasma GraphRAG: Physics-Grounded Parameter Selection for Gyrokinetic Simulations

arXiv cs.AI / 4/10/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper proposes Plasma GraphRAG, a framework that combines Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) with LLMs to automate physics-grounded parameter range identification for gyrokinetic plasma simulations.
  • It builds a domain-specific knowledge graph from curated plasma literature and uses structured retrieval over graph-anchored entities and relations to produce context-aware recommendations.
  • Evaluations using five metrics—comprehensiveness, diversity, grounding, hallucination, and empowerment—show Plasma GraphRAG improves overall quality by more than 10% versus vanilla RAG.
  • The approach also reduces hallucination rates by up to 25%, aiming to improve simulation reliability compared with manual or less-grounded parameter selection.
  • Beyond gyrokinetic parameter selection, the authors argue the methodology could accelerate scientific discovery in other complex, data-rich research domains.

Abstract

Accurate parameter selection is fundamental to gyrokinetic plasma simulations, yet current practices rely heavily on manual literature reviews, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistencies. We introduce Plasma GraphRAG, a novel framework that integrates Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) with large language models (LLMs) for automated, physics-grounded parameter range identification. By constructing a domain-specific knowledge graph from curated plasma literature and enabling structured retrieval over graph-anchored entities and relations, Plasma GraphRAG enables LLMs to generate accurate, context-aware recommendations. Extensive evaluations across five metrics, comprehensiveness, diversity, grounding, hallucination, and empowerment, demonstrate that Plasma GraphRAG outperforms vanilla RAG by over 10\% in overall quality and reduces hallucination rates by up to 25\%. {Beyond enhancing simulation reliability, Plasma GraphRAG offers a methodology for accelerating scientific discovery across complex, data-rich domains.