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Knowledge and expertise in the real-world can be disjointedly owned. To solve a complex question, collaboration among experts is often called for. In this paper, we propose CollabQA, a novel QA task in which several expert agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiangkun Hu , Hang Yan , Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Weinan Zhang , Zheng Zhang

Existing work on augmenting question answering (QA) models with external knowledge (e.g., knowledge graphs) either struggle to model multi-hop relations efficiently, or lack transparency into the model's prediction rationale. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Yanlin Feng , Xinyue Chen , Bill Yuchen Lin , Peifeng Wang , Jun Yan , Xiang Ren

Knowledge in the real world is being updated constantly. However, it is costly to frequently update large language models (LLMs). Therefore, it is crucial for LLMs to understand the concept of temporal knowledge. However, prior works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Lidong Bing

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

Visual Question Answering (VQA) often involves diverse reasoning scenarios across Vision and Language (V&L). Most prior VQA studies, however, have merely focused on assessing the model's overall accuracy without evaluating it on different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jihyung Kil , Farideh Tavazoee , Dongyeop Kang , Joo-Kyung Kim

Multi-hop reading comprehension across multiple documents attracts much attention recently. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to tackle this multi-hop reading comprehension problem. Inspired by human reasoning processing, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zeyun Tang , Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Wei Xu , Jiale Yu , Weiming Lu

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) systems rely on high-quality benchmarks to evaluate complex multi-hop reasoning. However, despite their widespread use, popular datasets such as WebQSP and CWQ suffer from critical quality issues,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Liangliang Zhang , Zhuorui Jiang , Hongliang Chi , Haoyang Chen , Mohammed Elkoumy , Fali Wang , Qiong Wu , Zhengyi Zhou , Shirui Pan , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma

Modern systems for multi-hop question answering (QA) typically break questions into a sequence of reasoning steps, termed chain-of-thought (CoT), before arriving at a final answer. Often, multiple chains are sampled and aggregated through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ori Yoran , Tomer Wolfson , Ben Bogin , Uri Katz , Daniel Deutch , Jonathan Berant

Interpretability is significant in computational pathology, leading to the development of multimodal information integration from histopathological image and corresponding text data.However, existing multimodal methods have limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kangcheng Zhou , Jun Jiang , Qing Zhang , Shuang Zheng , Qingli Li , Shugong Xu

Existing Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) architectures are hungry for annotated data, which make them costly and time-consuming to deploy. We introduce the problem of few-shot transfer learning for KBQA, where the target domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mayur Patidar , Riya Sawhney , Avinash Singh , Biswajit Chatterjee , Mausam , Indrajit Bhattacharya

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

Knowledge-based question answering (KBQA) is a key task in NLP research, and also an approach to access the web data and knowledge, which requires exploiting knowledge graphs (KGs) for reasoning. In the literature, one promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xin Lin , Tianhuang Su , Zhenya Huang , Shangzi Xue , Haifeng Liu , Enhong Chen

Multi-hop Question Generation (QG) aims to generate answer-related questions by aggregating and reasoning over multiple scattered evidence from different paragraphs. It is a more challenging yet under-explored task compared to conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Dan Su , Yan Xu , Wenliang Dai , Ziwei Ji , Tiezheng Yu , Pascale Fung

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) simplifies querying vast amounts of knowledge stored in a graph-based model using natural language. However, the research has largely concentrated on English, putting non-English speakers at a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nikit Srivastava , Mengshi Ma , Daniel Vollmers , Hamada Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

End-to-end training has been a popular approach for knowledge base question answering (KBQA). However, real world applications often contain answers of varied quality for users' questions. It is not appropriate to treat all available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Mengxi Wei , Yifan He , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si

Multi-hop Question Answering (MHQA) adds layers of complexity to question answering, making it more challenging. When Language Models (LMs) are prompted with multiple search results, they are tasked not only with retrieving relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wenyu Huang , Pavlos Vougiouklis , Mirella Lapata , Jeff Z. Pan

This paper is on the problem of Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent works have emphasized the significance of incorporating both explicit (through external databases) and implicit (through LLMs) knowledge to answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alexandros Xenos , Themos Stafylakis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Existing KBQA approaches, despite achieving strong performance on i.i.d. test data, often struggle in generalizing to questions involving unseen KB schema items. Prior ranking-based approaches have shown some success in generalization, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xi Ye , Semih Yavuz , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Question answering on knowledge bases (KBQA) poses a unique challenge for semantic parsing research due to two intertwined challenges: large search space and ambiguities in schema linking. Conventional ranking-based KBQA models, which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Yu Su

Has there been real progress in multi-hop question-answering? Models often exploit dataset artifacts to produce correct answers, without connecting information across multiple supporting facts. This limits our ability to measure true…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Harsh Trivedi , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal