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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Raphael Schumann , Stefan Riezler

Answering questions that require multi-hop reasoning at web-scale necessitates retrieving multiple evidence documents, one of which often has little lexical or semantic relationship to the question. This paper introduces a new graph-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Akari Asai , Kazuma Hashimoto , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

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

This paper is concerned with the task of multi-hop open-domain Question Answering (QA). This task is particularly challenging since it requires the simultaneous performance of textual reasoning and efficient searching. We present a method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Yair Feldman , Ran El-Yaniv

In Textual question answering (TQA) systems, complex questions often require retrieving multiple textual fact chains with multiple reasoning steps. While existing benchmarks are limited to single-chain or single-hop retrieval scenarios. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Minjun Zhu , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We propose the new problem of learning to recover reasoning chains from weakly supervised signals, i.e., the question-answer pairs. We propose a cooperative game approach to deal with this problem, in which how the evidence passages are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yufei Feng , Mo Yu , Wenhan Xiong , Xiaoxiao Guo , Junjie Huang , Shiyu Chang , Murray Campbell , Michael Greenspan , Xiaodan Zhu

VQA models may tend to rely on language bias as a shortcut and thus fail to sufficiently learn the multi-modal knowledge from both vision and language. Recent debiasing methods proposed to exclude the language prior during inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yulei Niu , Kaihua Tang , Hanwang Zhang , Zhiwu Lu , Xian-Sheng Hua , Ji-Rong Wen

Knowledge-based visual question answering (QA) aims to answer a question which requires visually-grounded external knowledge beyond image content itself. Answering complex questions that require multi-hop reasoning under weak supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yu-Jung Heo , Eun-Sol Kim , Woo Suk Choi , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Recent work has proposed multi-hop models and datasets for studying complex natural language reasoning. One notable task requiring multi-hop reasoning is fact checking, where a set of connected evidence pieces leads to the final verdict of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Wojciech Ostrowski , Arnav Arora , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

Commonsense question answering (QA) research requires machines to answer questions based on commonsense knowledge. However, this research requires expensive labor costs to annotate data as the basis of research, and models that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xin Guan , Biwei Cao , Qingqing Gao , Zheng Yin , Bo Liu , Jiuxin Cao

We propose a new CogQA framework for multi-hop question answering in web-scale documents. Inspired by the dual process theory in cognitive science, the framework gradually builds a \textit{cognitive graph} in an iterative process by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Ming Ding , Chang Zhou , Qibin Chen , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Building training-ready multi-hop question answering (QA) datasets that truly stress a model's retrieval and reasoning abilities remains highly challenging recently. While there have been a few recent evaluation datasets that capture the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bingsen Qiu , Zijian Liu , Xiao Liu , Bingjie Wang , Feier Zhang , Yixuan Qin , Chunyan Li , Haoshen Yang , Zeren Gao

Multi-hop QA requires a model to connect multiple pieces of evidence scattered in a long context to answer the question. The recently proposed HotpotQA (Yang et al., 2018) dataset is comprised of questions embodying four different multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yichen Jiang , Mohit Bansal

Multi-hop logical reasoning on knowledge graphs is a pivotal task in natural language processing, with numerous approaches aiming to answer First-Order Logic (FOL) queries. Recent geometry (e.g., box, cone) and probability (e.g., beta…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jeonghoon Kim , Heesoo Jung , Hyeju Jang , Hogun Park

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

Question answering (QA) over tables and text has gained much popularity over the years. Multi-hop table-text QA requires multiple hops between the table and text, making it a challenging QA task. Although several works have attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jayetri Bardhan , Bushi Xiao , Daisy Zhe Wang

Effective multi-hop question answering (QA) requires reasoning over multiple scattered paragraphs and providing explanations for answers. Most existing approaches cannot provide an interpretable reasoning process to illustrate how these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zhenyun Deng , Yonghua Zhu , Yang Chen , Michael Witbrock , Patricia Riddle

This paper proposes an iterative inference algorithm for multi-hop explanation regeneration, that retrieves relevant factual evidence in the form of text snippets, given a natural language question and its answer. Combining multiple sources…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ruben Cartuyvels , Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

Question answering models commonly have access to two sources of "knowledge" during inference time: (1) parametric knowledge - the factual knowledge encoded in the model weights, and (2) contextual knowledge - external knowledge (e.g., a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ella Neeman , Roee Aharoni , Or Honovich , Leshem Choshen , Idan Szpektor , Omri Abend

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been used in question answering (QA) systems to improve performance when relevant information is in one (single-hop) or multiple (multi-hop) passages. However, many real life scenarios (e.g. dealing…

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