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MTRAG-UN: A Benchmark for Open Challenges in Multi-Turn RAG Conversations

Computation and Language 2026-02-27 v1

Abstract

We present MTRAG-UN, a benchmark for exploring open challenges in multi-turn retrieval augmented generation, a popular use of large language models. We release a benchmark of 666 tasks containing over 2,800 conversation turns across 6 domains with accompanying corpora. Our experiments show that retrieval and generation models continue to struggle on conversations with UNanswerable, UNderspecified, and NONstandalone questions and UNclear responses. Our benchmark is available at https://github.com/IBM/mt-rag-benchmark

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@article{arxiv.2602.23184,
  title  = {MTRAG-UN: A Benchmark for Open Challenges in Multi-Turn RAG Conversations},
  author = {Sara Rosenthal and Yannis Katsis and Vraj Shah and Lihong He and Lucian Popa and Marina Danilevsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23184},
  year   = {2026}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:54:09.977Z