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Hierarchical Graph Network for Multi-hop Question Answering
Yuwei Fang, Siqi Sun, Zhe Gan, Rohit Pillai, Shuohang Wang, Jingjing Liu
In this paper, we present Hierarchical Graph Network (HGN) for multi-hop question answering. To aggregate clues from scattered texts across multiple paragraphs, a hierarchical graph is created by constructing nodes on different levels of granularity (questions, paragraphs, sentences, entities), the representations of which are initialized with pre-trained contextual encoders. Given this hierarchical graph, the initial node representations are updated through graph propagation, and multi-hop reasoning is performed via traversing through the graph edges for each subsequent sub-task (e.g., paragraph selection, supporting facts extraction, answer prediction). By weaving heterogeneous nodes into an integral unified graph, this hierarchical differentiation of node granularity enables HGN to support different question answering sub-tasks simultaneously. Experiments on the HotpotQA benchmark demonstrate that the proposed model achieves new state of the art, outperforming existing multi-hop QA approaches.
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Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | ANS-EM | 0.567 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | ANS-F1 | 0.692 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | JOINT-EM | 0.356 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | JOINT-F1 | 0.599 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | SUP-EM | 0.500 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Question Answering | HotpotQA | HGN + SemanticRetrievalMRS IR | SUP-F1 | 0.764 | #32 of 72 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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