RUVA: Personalized Transparent On-Device Graph Reasoning

RUVA: Personalized Transparent On-Device Graph Reasoning

Gabriele Conte, Alessio Mattiace, Gianni Carmosino, Potito Aghilar, Giovanni Servedio, Francesco Musicco, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco Maria Donini

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Demo Track. Pages 8375-8379. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/960

The Personal AI landscape is currently dominated by "Black Box" Retrieval-Augmented Generation. While standard vector databases offer statistical matching, they suffer from a fundamental lack of accountability: when an AI hallucinates or retrieves sensitive data, the user cannot inspect the cause nor correct the error. Worse, "deleting" a concept from a vector space is mathematically imprecise, leaving behind probabilistic "ghosts" that violate true privacy. We propose Ruva, the first "Glass Box" architecture designed for Human-in-the-Loop Memory Curation. Ruva grounds Personal AI in a Personal Knowledge Graph, enabling users to inspect what the AI knows and to perform precise redaction of specific facts. By shifting the paradigm from Vector Matching to Graph Reasoning, Ruva ensures the "Right to be Forgotten." Users are the editors of their own lives; Ruva hands them the pen.
Keywords:
AI: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
AI: AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes
AI: Humans and AI
AI: Natural Language Processing