Building Reliable Data Analytics Agents: Lessons from the KDD Cup

The NVIDIA KGMON team placed second in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition with a system built around a simple idea of making an agent's harness smaller,...

The NVIDIA KGMON team placed second in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition with a system built around a simple idea of making an agent’s harness smaller, clearer, and easier to verify. The competition asked agents to answer natural-language questions over heterogeneous data sources, including databases, CSV and JSON files, prose documents, PDFs, and briefing videos.