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title = "Making Long-Context Language Models Better Multi-Hop Reasoners",
author = "Li, Yanyang and
Liang, Shuo and
Lyu, Michael and
Wang, Liwei",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
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pages = "2462--2475",
abstract = "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 performance in the presence of noisy contexts. In this paper, we introduce Reasoning with Attributions, a novel approach that prompts LMs to supply attributions for each assertion during their reasoning. We validate our approach through experiments on three multi-hop datasets, employing both proprietary and open-source models, and demonstrate its efficacy and resilience. Furthermore, we explore methods to augment reasoning capabilities via fine-tuning and offer an attribution-annotated dataset and a specialized training strategy. Our fine-tuned model achieves competitive performance on multi-hop reasoning benchmarks, closely paralleling proprietary LMs such as ChatGPT and Claude-instant.",
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%A Liang, Shuo
%A Lyu, Michael
%A Wang, Liwei
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
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%P 2462-2475
Markdown (Informal)
[Making Long-Context Language Models Better Multi-Hop Reasoners](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.135) (Li et al., ACL 2024)
ACL
- Yanyang Li, Shuo Liang, Michael Lyu, and Liwei Wang. 2024. Making Long-Context Language Models Better Multi-Hop Reasoners. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2462–2475, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.