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Answering complex logical queries on incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs) with missing edges is a fundamental and important task for knowledge graph reasoning. The query embedding method is proposed to answer these queries by jointly encoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jiaxin Bai , Zihao Wang , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song

Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires a model to retrieve and integrate information from different parts of a long text to answer a question. Humans answer this kind of complex questions via a divide-and-conquer approach. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yixuan Tang , Hwee Tou Ng , Anthony K. H. Tung

The AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), a new benchmark dataset for question answering (QA) has been recently released. ARC only contains natural science questions authored for human exams, which are hard to answer and require advanced logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Kamil Toraman , Le Song

Multi-hop question answering (MHQA) poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the extensive knowledge demands involved. Knowledge editing, which aims to precisely modify the LLMs to incorporate specific knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yifan Lu , Yigeng Zhou , Jing Li , Yequan Wang , Xuebo Liu , Daojing He , Fangming Liu , Min Zhang

Video question answering is a challenging task, which requires agents to be able to understand rich video contents and perform spatial-temporal reasoning. However, existing graph-based methods fail to perform multi-step reasoning well,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jianyu Wang , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

Generating multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with difficulty estimation remains challenging in automated MCQ-generation systems used in adaptive, AI-assisted education. This study proposes a novel methodology for generating MCQs with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mehmet Can Şakiroğlu , H. Altay Güvenir , Kamer Kaya

Reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs) with first-order logic (FOL) queries is challenging due to the inherent incompleteness of real-world KGs and the compositional complexity of logical query structures. Most existing methods rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziyan Zhang , Chao Wang , Zhuo Chen , Lei Chen , Chiyi Li , Kai Song

Question answering systems are the latest evolution in information retrieval technology, designed to accept complex queries in natural language and provide accurate answers using both unstructured and structured knowledge sources. Knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arash Ghafouri , Mahdi Firouzmandi , Hasan Naderi

Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) extends the RAG paradigm by incorporating structured knowledge from knowledge graphs, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform more precise and explainable reasoning. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jing Ren , Bowen Li , Ziqi Xu , Xikun Zhang , Haytham Fayek , Xiaodong Li

Given an image and an associated textual question, the purpose of Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) is to provide a correct answer to the question with the aid of external knowledge bases. Prior KB-VQA models are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jingru Gan , Xinzhe Han , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

Multi-relation question answering (QA) is a challenging task, where given questions usually require long reasoning chains in KGs that consist of multiple relations. Recently, methods with explicit multi-step reasoning over KGs have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ruijie Wang , Luca Rossetto , Michael Cochez , Abraham Bernstein

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for structuring and leveraging diverse real-world knowledge, which serve as a fundamental technology for enabling cognitive intelligence systems with advanced understanding and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Guanglin Niu , Bo Li , Yangguang Lin

Recent years, multi-hop reasoning has been widely studied for knowledge graph (KG) reasoning due to its efficacy and interpretability. However, previous multi-hop reasoning approaches are subject to two primary shortcomings. First, agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zijian Wang , Bin Wang , Haifeng Jing , Huayu Li , Hongbo Dou

Fact-centric information needs are rarely one-shot; users typically ask follow-up questions to explore a topic. In such a conversational setting, the user's inputs are often incomplete, with entities or predicates left out, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Philipp Christmann , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Abdalghani Abujabal , Jyotsna Singh , Gerhard Weikum

Knowledge graphs (KGs) play a crucial role in many applications, such as question answering, but incompleteness is an urgent issue for their broad application. Much research in knowledge graph completion (KGC) has been performed to resolve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yinyu Lan , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Multi-hop reasoning over financial disclosures is often a retrieval problem before it becomes a reasoning or generation problem: relevant facts are dispersed across sections, filings, companies, and years, and LLMs often expend excessive…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-06 Abhinav Arun , Reetu Raj Harsh , Bhaskarjit Sarmah , Stefano Pasquali

General Question Answering (QA) systems over texts require the multi-hop reasoning capability, i.e. the ability to reason with information collected from multiple passages to derive the answer. In this paper we conduct a systematic analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Haoyu Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Rajarshi Das , Wenhan Xiong , Tian Gao

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are vital for enabling knowledge reasoning across various domains. Recent KG reasoning methods that integrate both global and local information have achieved promising results. However, existing methods often suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jin Li , Zezhong Ding , Xike Xie

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Visual Language Pretrained Models (VLPMs) have shown remarkable performances in the general Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, these models struggle with VQA questions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Shuo Yang , Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han

Multi-hop reasoning question answering requires deep comprehension of relationships between various documents and queries. We propose a Bi-directional Attention Entity Graph Convolutional Network (BAG), leveraging relationships between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yu Cao , Meng Fang , Dacheng Tao