@inproceedings{pei-etal-2026-clore, title = "{C}lo{R}e: Closed-Loop Reasoning via Intermediate-State Maintenance for Multi-Hop Question Answering", author = "Pei, Yingxin and Han, Yuantao and Li, Ruiting and Ji, Binquan and Luo, Haibo and Lu, Yifei and Ren, Feiliang", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1404/", pages = "29924--29953", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }