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Unlearning has emerged as a critical capability for large language models (LLMs) to support data privacy, regulatory compliance, and ethical AI deployment. Recent techniques often rely on obfuscation by injecting incorrect or irrelevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Guangzhi Sun , Potsawee Manakul , Xiao Zhan , Mark Gales

Over the last twenty years, significant progress has been made in designing and implementing Question Answering (QA) systems. However, addressing complex questions, the answers to which are spread across multiple documents, remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Sourav Saha , Dwaipayan Roy , Mandar Mitra

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become commonplace, particularly with the emergence of open-source models. More importantly, smaller models are well-suited for integration into consumer devices and are frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Aisha Khatun , Daniel G. Brown

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are commonly used to evaluate the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). One common way to evaluate the model response is to rank the candidate answers based on the log probability of the first token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xinpeng Wang , Chengzhi Hu , Bolei Ma , Paul Röttger , Barbara Plank

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions by integrating visual information with external knowledge. However, retrieved knowledge is often noisy, partially irrelevant, or misaligned with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xianwei Mao , Kai Ye , Sheng Zhou , Nan Zhang , Haikuan Huang , Bin Li , Jiajun Bu

The problem of realistic VQA (RVQA), where a model has to reject unanswerable questions (UQs) and answer answerable ones (AQs), is studied. We first point out 2 drawbacks in current RVQA research, where (1) datasets contain too many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Yuwei Zhang , Chih-Hui Ho , Nuno Vasconcelos

Recently, the community has achieved substantial progress on many commonsense reasoning benchmarks. However, it is still unclear what is learned from the training process: the knowledge, inference capability, or both? We argue that due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Hongming Zhang , Yintong Huo , Yanai Elazar , Yangqiu Song , Yoav Goldberg , Dan Roth

Transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, such models are likely to disregard crucial visual cues and often rely on multimodal shortcuts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Maria Parelli , Dimitrios Mallis , Markos Diomataris , Vassilis Pitsikalis

When a model is trying to gather information in an interactive setting, it benefits from asking informative questions. However, in the case of a grounded multi-turn image identification task, previous studies have been constrained to polar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sedrick Keh , Justin T. Chiu , Daniel Fried

Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which requires large number of repetitive work and neglects the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yang Deng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Kai Lei , Ying Shen

Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs are very important for e-learning. Generally, MCQs are used as a tool for the assessment of student performance at the end of their learning sessions. Can MCQs become an important tool in the process of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Kisor Ray , Saumen Sarkar

With the advancement of large language models (LLMs), their performance on multiple-choice question (MCQ) tasks has improved significantly. However, existing approaches face key limitations: answer choices are typically presented to LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Duc Anh Vu , Thong Nguyen , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) is one of the challenging tasks to evaluate machine's comprehension and reasoning abilities, where large language models (LLMs) have widely achieved the human-comparable performance. Due to the dynamics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Xiaotian Han , Ninghao Liu , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

Despite recent progress on conversational systems, they still do not perform smoothly and coherently when faced with ambiguous requests. When questions are unclear, conversational systems should have the ability to ask clarifying questions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Negar Arabzadeh , Mahsa Seifikar , Charles L. A. Clarke

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 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

Deep neural network based question answering (QA) models are neither robust nor explainable in many cases. For example, a multiple-choice QA model, tested without any input of question, is surprisingly "capable" to predict the most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sicheng Yu , Yulei Niu , Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang , Qianru Sun

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

A trending paradigm for multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is using a text-to-text framework. By unifying data in different tasks into a single text-to-text format, it trains a generative encoder-decoder model which is both powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zixian Huang , Ao Wu , Jiaying Zhou , Yu Gu , Yue Zhao , Gong Cheng

Multi-Span Question Answering (MSQA) requires models to extract one or multiple answer spans from a given context to answer a question. Prior work mainly focuses on designing specific methods or applying heuristic strategies to encourage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiayi Lin , Chenyang Zhang , Haibo Tong , Dongyu Zhang , Qingqing Hong , Bingxuan Hou , Junli Wang