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Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires reasoning across multiple documents, yet existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches address this either through graph-based methods requiring additional online processing or iterative…

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The attention mechanism enables graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn the attention weights between the target node and its one-hop neighbors, thereby improving the performance further. However, most existing GNNs are oriented toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yundong Sun , Dongjie Zhu , Haiwen Du , Zhaoshuo Tian

Text classification is a critical research topic with broad applications in natural language processing. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention in the research community and demonstrated their promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kaize Ding , Jianling Wang , Jundong Li , Dingcheng Li , Huan Liu

Graphs are useful for representing various realworld objects. However, graph neural networks (GNNs) tend to suffer from over-smoothing, where the representations of nodes of different classes become similar as the number of layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jun Kato , Airi Mita , Keita Gobara , Akihiro Inokuchi

Transformer-based models have advanced the field of question answering, but multi-hop reasoning, where answers require combining evidence across multiple passages, remains difficult. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zichen Zhang , Kunlong Zhang , Hongwei Ruan , Yiming Luo

Answering questions that require reasoning and aggregation across both structured (tables) and unstructured (raw text) data sources presents significant challenges. Current methods rely on fine-tuning and high-quality, human-curated data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ankush Agarwal , Ganesh S , Chaitanya Devaguptapu

Question answering systems are the latest evolution in information retrieval technology, designed to accept complex queries in natural language and provide accurate answers using both unstructured and structured knowledge sources. Knowledge…

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The key to the text classification task is language representation and important information extraction, and there are many related studies. In recent years, the research on graph neural network (GNN) in text classification has gradually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shuai Hua , Xinxin Li , Yunpeng Jing , Qunfeng Liu

Multi-hop machine reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing as it requires more reasoning ability across multiple documents. Spectral models based on graph convolutional networks have shown good inferring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Peng Gao , Feng Gao , Peng Wang , Jian-Cheng Ni , Fei Wang , Hamido Fujita

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KG) are heterogenous networks consisting of biological entities as nodes and relations between them as edges. These entities and relations are extracted from millions of research papers and unified in a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Dattaraj J. Rao , Shraddha S. Mane , Mukta A. Paliwal

Multimodal Multi-hop question answering requires integrating information from diverse sources, such as images and texts, to derive answers. Existing methods typically rely on sequential retrieval and reasoning, where each step builds on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiheng Hu , Xiaoyang Wang , Qing Liu , Xiwei Xu , Qian Fu , Wenjie Zhang , Liming Zhu

Incorporating external graph knowledge into neural chatbot models has been proven effective for enhancing dialogue generation. However, in conventional graph neural networks (GNNs), message passing on a graph is independent from text,…

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Molecular representation learning, a cornerstone for downstream tasks like molecular captioning and molecular property prediction, heavily relies on Graph Neural Networks (GNN). However, GNN suffers from the over-smoothing problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Zihang Shao , Wentao Lei , Lei Wang , Wencai Ye , Li Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in multi-hop question-answering (M-QA) due to their advanced reasoning abilities. However, the impact of the inherent reasoning structures on LLM M-QA performance remains unclear, largely due to…

Generative question answering (QA) models generate answers to questions either solely based on the parameters of the model (the closed-book setting) or additionally retrieving relevant evidence (the open-book setting). Generative QA models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Zhengbao Jiang , Jun Araki , Haibo Ding , Graham Neubig

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely used for question answering (QA) applications, especially the entity based QA. However, searching an-swers from an entire large-scale knowledge graph is very time-consuming and it is hard to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shuangyong Song

While diverse question answering (QA) datasets have been proposed and contributed significantly to the development of deep learning models for QA tasks, the existing datasets fall short in two aspects. First, we lack QA datasets covering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Sicheng Yu , Shuohang Wang , Yang Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

Computerized Adaptive Testing(CAT) refers to an online system that adaptively selects the best-suited question for students with various abilities based on their historical response records. Most CAT methods only focus on the quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Hangyu Wang , Ting Long , Liang Yin , Weinan Zhang , Wei Xia , Qichen Hong , Dingyin Xia , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu

Multivariate time series is prevalent in many scientific and industrial domains. Modeling multivariate signals is challenging due to their long-range temporal dependencies and intricate interactions--both direct and indirect. To confront…

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