@inproceedings{ji-etal-2026-retrieval, title = "Retrieval{--}Reasoning Processes for Multi-hop Question Answering: A Four-Axis Design Framework and Empirical Trends", author = "Ji, Yuelyu and Li, Zhuochun and Meng, Rui and He, Daqing", editor = "Wang, Yimu and Choi, Yee Man and Wu, Di and Ouyang, Siqi and Azadani, Mozhgan Nasr and Fung, Yi R. (May)", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Grounding Language Models: Learning Faithfully and Efficiently ({G}round{LM} 2026)", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.groundlm-1.7/", pages = "84--103", ISBN = "979-8-89176-478-1" }