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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is concerned with answering free-form questions about an image. Since it requires a deep semantic and linguistic understanding of the question and the ability to associate it with various objects that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Rajat Koner , Hang Li , Marcel Hildebrandt , Deepan Das , Volker Tresp , Stephan Günnemann

Multi-hop question answering (MHQA) enables accurate answers to complex queries by retrieving and reasoning over evidence dispersed across multiple documents. Existing MHQA approaches mainly rely on iterative retrieval-augmented generation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Chen , Lili Zhao , Zhi Zheng , HuiJun Hou , Tong Xu

In recent years, the use of large language models (LLMs) has significantly increased, and these models have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of general language tasks. However, the evaluation of their performance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Iman Barati , Arash Ghafouri , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

Multi-hop reasoning (i.e., reasoning across two or more documents) is a key ingredient for NLP models that leverage large corpora to exhibit broad knowledge. To retrieve evidence passages, multi-hop models must contend with a fast-growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Omar Khattab , Christopher Potts , Matei Zaharia

Multi-hop question answering (QA) involves finding multiple relevant passages and step-by-step reasoning to answer complex questions, indicating a retrieve-and-read paradigm. However, previous retrievers were customized for two-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiahao Zhang , Haiyang Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Yong Liu , Shen Huang

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

Knowledge graph question answering is an important technology in intelligent human-robot interaction, which aims at automatically giving answer to human natural language question with the given knowledge graph. For the multi-relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xinmeng Li , Mamoun Alazab , Qian Li , Keping Yu , Quanjun Yin

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

We introduce HoVer (HOppy VERification), a dataset for many-hop evidence extraction and fact verification. It challenges models to extract facts from several Wikipedia articles that are relevant to a claim and classify whether the claim is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yichen Jiang , Shikha Bordia , Zheng Zhong , Charles Dognin , Maneesh Singh , Mohit Bansal

We study the task of prompting large-scale language models to perform multi-step reasoning. Existing work shows that when prompted with a chain of thoughts (CoT), sequences of short sentences describing intermediate reasoning steps towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yao Fu , Hao Peng , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark , Tushar Khot

Multi-Hop Question Answering (MHQA) is crucial for evaluating the model's capability to integrate information from diverse sources. However, creating extensive and high-quality MHQA datasets is challenging: (i) manual annotation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiyu Shen , Jiyuan Liu , Yunhe Pang , Yanghui Rao , Fu Lee Wang , Jianxing Yu

Previous work finds that recent long-context language models fail to make equal use of information in the middle of their inputs, preferring pieces of information located at the tail ends which creates an undue bias in situations where we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 George Arthur Baker , Ankush Raut , Sagi Shaier , Lawrence E Hunter , Katharina von der Wense

In the question answering(QA) task, multi-hop reasoning framework has been extensively studied in recent years to perform more efficient and interpretable answer reasoning on the Knowledge Graph(KG). However, multi-hop reasoning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yao Zhang , Peiyao Li , Hongru Liang , Adam Jatowt , Zhenglu Yang

Multi-hop reading comprehension (MHRC) requires not only to predict the correct answer span in the given passage, but also to provide a chain of supporting evidences for reasoning interpretability. It is natural to model such a process into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bohong Wu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

When answering complex questions, people can seamlessly combine information from visual, textual and tabular sources. While interest in models that reason over multiple pieces of evidence has surged in recent years, there has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Alon Talmor , Ori Yoran , Amnon Catav , Dan Lahav , Yizhong Wang , Akari Asai , Gabriel Ilharco , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Jonathan Berant

Our goal is to combine the rich multistep inference of symbolic logical reasoning with the generalization capabilities of neural networks. We are particularly interested in complex reasoning about entities and relations in text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Rajarshi Das , Arvind Neelakantan , David Belanger , Andrew McCallum

Neural network models recently proposed for question answering (QA) primarily focus on capturing the passage-question relation. However, they have minimal capability to link relevant facts distributed across multiple sentences which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Souvik Kundu , Hwee Tou Ng

It is challenging for current one-step retrieve-and-read question answering (QA) systems to answer questions like "Which novel by the author of 'Armada' will be adapted as a feature film by Steven Spielberg?" because the question seldom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Peng Qi , Xiaowen Lin , Leo Mehr , Zijian Wang , Christopher D. Manning

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away in the Knowledge Base (KB) from the entities in the question. A major challenge is the lack of supervision signals at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Gaole He , Yunshi Lan , Jing Jiang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Multi-hop question answering is a challenging task in which language models must reason over multiple steps to reach the correct answer. With the help of Large Language Models and their reasoning capabilities, existing systems are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Durga Prasad Maram , Kalpa Gunaratna , Vijay Srinivasan , Haris Jeelani , Srinivas Chappidi