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Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation

arXiv cs.AI LLM Agents Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Ruibo Ming, He Zhang, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Jinjin Gu 2026-07-17

TL;DR - A knowledge-centric framework for generating modular visual-creation workflows (e.g., ComfyUI), treating workflow synthesis as reasoning over structured knowledge rather than direct text-to-JSON generation. It matters because it improves the reliability and design quality of agentic workflow generation.

  • Knowledge inversion: distills hierarchical representations (full pseudo-code, skeletons, high-level strategies) from large collections of real-world workflows.
  • Knowledge injection: uses supervised fine-tuning to teach the model to reason from task descriptions → strategies → executable structures.
  • Inference: performs reversible reasoning plus self-refinement to synthesize structurally coherent, executable workflows.
  • Reported results: richer node diversity, more coherent structure, and higher execution success rates than existing systems (specific metrics not provided in the abstract).

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