XHotpotQA is a new benchmark for cross‑lingual knowledge composition in multi‑hop question answering. It presents each instance as an evidence‑dependency graph with explicit language assignments for the question, bridge evidence, answer‑bearing evidence, and distractors, and includes 15,661 training and 7,405 validation examples with sentence‑level support supervision. The dataset reveals significant performance drops when evidence spans language boundaries, providing a diagnostic tool for systems that must integrate evidence across languages.
By Iman Barati, Arash Ghafouri, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli
arXiv:2606. 06906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context question answering (QA) remains challenging for smaller language models even when answer-bearing evidence is already present in the input.
By Xiaopeng Yuan, Zebin Wang, Suwen Wang, Zongxin Yang, Haohan Wang, Yushun Dong
arXiv:2609.37491v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented language models are expected to answer from the retrieved evidence, but in practice they often keep answering when that evidence...
By Zeyan Li, Qirong Guo, SIyuan Qiu, Hu Xu, Chun Li, Jianfeng Xu
arXiv:2606. 06197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Question answering (QA) systems have achieved notable progress with the advent of large language models (LLMs).
By Hafez Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Alansary, Ali Hamdi
The paper introduces Evidence Sufficiency Boundary Training, a framework that teaches models to abstain from answering until the supplied evidence is fully sufficient, and to remain stable when additional redundant evidence is added. By constructing ordered evidence chains from datasets such as HotpotQA, 2WikiMultiHopQA, and MuSiQue, the method applies level supervision, a boundary flip margin, post‑boundary stability, and answer recall protection. Experiments with Qwen2.5‑3B‑Instruct and LoRA adaptation show improved boundary localization (flip accuracy 0.807 vs 0.781) and a lower unsupported‑answer rate (0.095 vs 0.101) while maintaining competitive raw QA F1.
By Haruto Sato, Yuki Tanaka, Ren Nakamura, Aoi Kobayashi, Mei Ito
The paper introduces EAR, an Entity‑Aware Partitioning approach that improves retrieval‑augmented generation for multiple‑choice question answering by extracting normalized surface anchors from questions, answers, and the corpus. EAR retrieves local windows around matching anchors and can attach a larger parent passage via an extractive summary, reducing retrieved words by 37.5‑40.2% compared to fixed‑size chunks. Experiments on a cleaned MMLU‑style subset with Mistral, Gemma, and DeepSeek show modest accuracy changes, none statistically significant, highlighting EAR’s methodological contribution of compact, inspectable retrieval units.
By Cenab Batu Bora, Oylum Alatl{\i}, Sebnem Bora, Oguz Dikenelli