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Multi-hop question answering faces substantial challenges due to data sparsity, which increases the likelihood of language models learning spurious patterns. To address this issue, prior research has focused on diversifying question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yangfan Wang , Jie Liu , Chen Tang , Lian Yan , Jingchi Jiang

Existing question answering datasets focus on dealing with homogeneous information, based either only on text or KB/Table information alone. However, as human knowledge is distributed over heterogeneous forms, using homogeneous information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Zhiyu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Hong Wang , William Wang

Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graph~(KGQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away from the topic entities mentioned in a natural language question on a large-scale Knowledge Graph (KG). To cope with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Multi-hop reasoning requires aggregating multiple documents to answer a complex question. Existing methods usually decompose the multi-hop question into simpler single-hop questions to solve the problem for illustrating the explainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Zhihao Fan , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

We propose a framework for answering open domain multi-hop questions in which partial information is read and used to generate followup questions, to finally be answered by a pretrained single-hop answer extractor. This framework makes each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Christopher Malon , Bing Bai

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in building question answering (QA) models that reason across multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, QA using images is often limited to just picking the answer from a…

Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires reasoning over multiple documents to answer a complex question and provide interpretable supporting evidence. However, providing supporting evidence is not enough to demonstrate that a model has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhenyun Deng , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Qianqian Qi , Michael Witbrock , Patricia Riddle

Multi-hop reasoning is an effective approach for query answering (QA) over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). The problem can be formulated in a reinforcement learning (RL) setup, where a policy-based agent sequentially extends its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Xi Victoria Lin , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Determining whether a provided context contains sufficient information to answer a question is a critical challenge for building reliable question-answering systems. While simple prompting strategies have shown success on factual questions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Akriti Jain , Aparna Garimella

A key challenge of multi-hop question answering (QA) in the open-domain setting is to accurately retrieve the supporting passages from a large corpus. Existing work on open-domain QA typically relies on off-the-shelf information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Hong Wang , Shiyu Chang , Murray Campbell , William Yang Wang

Multi-hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions that require synthesizing multiple information snippets from documents to derive target answers. The primary challenge lies in effectively pinpointing crucial information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Maodong Li , Longyin Zhang , Fang Kong

Most Reading Comprehension methods limit themselves to queries which can be answered using a single sentence, paragraph, or document. Enabling models to combine disjoint pieces of textual evidence would extend the scope of machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Welbl , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

Explainable multi-hop question answering (QA) not only predicts answers but also identifies rationales, i. e. subsets of input sentences used to derive the answers. This problem has been extensively studied under the supervised setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenting Zhao , Justin T. Chiu , Claire Cardie , Alexander M. Rush

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) under knowledge editing (KE) has garnered significant attention in the era of large language models. However, existing models for MQA under KE exhibit poor performance when dealing with questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Keyuan Cheng , Gang Lin , Haoyang Fei , Yuxuan zhai , Lu Yu , Muhammad Asif Ali , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Multi-hop Reading Comprehension (RC) requires reasoning and aggregation across several paragraphs. We propose a system for multi-hop RC that decomposes a compositional question into simpler sub-questions that can be answered by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sewon Min , Victor Zhong , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

KBQA is a task that requires to answer questions by using semantic structured information in knowledge base. Previous work in this area has been restricted due to the lack of large semantic parsing dataset and the exponential growth of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Meihao Fan , Lei Zhang , Siyao Xiao , Yuru Liang

Knowledge transfer from a complex high performing model to a simpler and potentially low performing one in order to enhance its performance has been of great interest over the last few years as it finds applications in important problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Amit Dhurandhar , Tejaswini Pedapati

The real-world information sources are inherently multilingual, which naturally raises a question about whether language models can synthesize information across languages. In this paper, we introduce a simple two-hop question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yan Meng , Wafaa Mohammed , Christof Monz

We propose a novel, path-based reasoning approach for the multi-hop reading comprehension task where a system needs to combine facts from multiple passages to answer a question. Although inspired by multi-hop reasoning over knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Souvik Kundu , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark

Obtaining training data for multi-hop question answering (QA) is time-consuming and resource-intensive. We explore the possibility to train a well-performed multi-hop QA model without referencing any human-labeled multi-hop question-answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Liangming Pan , Wenhu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Min-Yen Kan , William Yang Wang