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Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task because it requires precise reasoning with entity relations at every step towards the answer. The relations can be represented in terms of labels in knowledge graph (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiaxin Shi , Shulin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Hanwang Zhang

State-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) are accredited with an increasing number of different capabilities, ranging from reading comprehension, over advanced mathematical and reasoning skills to possessing scientific knowledge. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Neeladri Bhuiya , Viktor Schlegel , Stefan Winkler

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

Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in improving retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Despite these advances, its effectiveness in multi-hop question answering (QA) remains limited by two fundamental limitations: (i) global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinchang Luo , Mingquan Cheng , Fan Wan , Ni Li , Xiaoling Xia , Shuangshuang Tian , Tingcheng Bian , Haiwei Wang , Haohuan Fu , Yan Tao

Real-world multi-hop QA is naturally linked with ambiguity, where a single query can trigger multiple reasoning paths that require independent resolution. Since ambiguity can occur at any stage, models must navigate layered uncertainty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jeonghyun Park , Ingeol Baek , Seunghyun Yoon , Haeun Jang , Aparna Garimella , Akriti Jain , Nedim Lipka , Hwanhee Lee

The ability to perform multi-modal multi-hop reasoning by iteratively integrating information across various modalities and external knowledge is critical for addressing complex real-world challenges. However, existing Multi-modal Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tao Zhang , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Yuxin Chen , Bing Li , Chunfeng Yuan , Guangting Wang , Fengyun Rao , Ying Shan , Weiming Hu

When provided with sufficient explanatory context, smaller Language Models have been shown to exhibit strong reasoning ability on challenging short-answer question-answering tasks where the questions are unseen in training. We evaluate two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Tim Hartill , Diana Benavides-Prado , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

Multi-hop question answering (QA) often requires sequential retrieval (multi-hop retrieval), where each hop retrieves missing knowledge based on information from previous hops. To facilitate more effective retrieval, we aim to distill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zehua Xia , Yuyang Wu , Yiyun Xia , Cam-Tu Nguyen

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

The task of video-based commonsense captioning aims to generate event-wise captions and meanwhile provide multiple commonsense descriptions (e.g., attribute, effect and intention) about the underlying event in the video. Prior works explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Weijiang Yu , Jian Liang , Lei Ji , Lu Li , Yuejian Fang , Nong Xiao , Nan Duan

Unsupervised question answering is an attractive task due to its independence on labeled data. Previous works usually make use of heuristic rules as well as pre-trained models to construct data and train QA models. However, most of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxiang Nie , Heyan Huang , Zewen Chi , Xian-Ling Mao

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast amounts of world knowledge but remain static once trained, making the timely integration of emerging facts prohibitively expensive via full retraining. Knowledge-editing techniques have thus emerged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuchen Wu , Liang Ding , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Recent advancements in long-context modeling have enhanced language models (LMs) for complex tasks across multiple NLP applications. Despite this progress, we find that these models struggle with multi-hop reasoning and exhibit decreased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yanyang Li , Shuo Liang , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Multi-hop question answering (QA) is a challenging task requiring QA systems to perform complex reasoning over multiple documents and provide supporting facts together with the exact answer. Existing works tend to utilize graph-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xin-Yi Li , Wei-Jun Lei , Yu-Bin Yang

Knowledge graphs are essential for numerous downstream natural language processing applications, but are typically incomplete with many facts missing. This results in research efforts on multi-hop reasoning task, which can be formulated as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yao Zhang , Hongru Liang , Adam Jatowt , Wenqiang Lei , Xin Wei , Ning Jiang , Zhenglu Yang

We aim to improve question answering (QA) by decomposing hard questions into simpler sub-questions that existing QA systems are capable of answering. Since labeling questions with decompositions is cumbersome, we take an unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ethan Perez , Patrick Lewis , Wen-tau Yih , Kyunghyun Cho , Douwe Kiela

Multi-hop claim verification is inherently challenging, requiring multi-step reasoning to construct verification chains while iteratively searching for information to uncover hidden bridging facts. This process is fundamentally interleaved,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Qisheng Hu , Quanyu Long , Wenya Wang

Multi-modal multi-hop question answering involves answering a question by reasoning over multiple input sources from different modalities. Existing methods often retrieve evidences separately and then use a language model to generate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qian Yang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) perform well on multi-hop reasoning, yet how they internally compose multiple facts remains unclear. Recent work proposes \emph{hop-aligned circuit hypothesis}, suggesting that bridge entities are computed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xukai Liu , Ye Liu , Jipeng Zhang , Yanghai Zhang , Kai Zhang , Qi Liu

Multi-hop question answering (MQA) under knowledge editing (KE) has garnered significant attention in the era of large language models. However, existing models for MQA under KE exhibit poor performance when dealing with questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Keyuan Cheng , Gang Lin , Haoyang Fei , Yuxuan zhai , Lu Yu , Muhammad Asif Ali , Lijie Hu , Di Wang