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arxivcs.CRcs.AIcs.LGcs.MA2026-07-06

TACTIC-KG: Toward Small Agent Teams for Cyber Threat Intelligence Knowledge Graph Construction

Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha, Gregory Blanc

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports are predominantly unstructured, heterogeneous, and noisy, which limits their direct usability for automated analysis and reasoning. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs (CSKGs) provide a structured representation of adversarial entities, actions, and relations, but constructing such graphs from free-text CTI remains a challenge. Recent approaches rely on monolithic Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform end-to-end extraction and completion, leading to high cost, limited controllability, and unstable performance. This paper introduces TACTIC-KG, an agentic framework for CSKG construction that decomposes the task into modular, specialized LLM agents responsible for extraction, typing, verification, and curation. Using lightweight models (3B--8B), TACTIC-KG improves stability, recall, and graph consistency while reducing deployment cost. We implement and evaluate TACTIC-KG against recent state-of-the-art systems. Experiments on human-annotated CTI reports show that agent specialization consistently outperforms larger monolithic in-context-learning (ICL) baselines in extraction F1-score, typing accuracy, and structural graph similarity.

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