Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval

We propose a simple and efficient multi-hop dense retrieval approach for answering complex open-domain questions, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on two multi-hop datasets, HotpotQA and multi-evidence FEVER. Contrary to previous work, our method does not require access to any corpus-specific information, such as inter-document hyperlinks or human-annotated entity markers, and can be applied to any unstructured text corpus. Our system also yields a much better efficiency-accuracy trade-off, matching the best published accuracy on HotpotQA while being 10 times faster at inference time.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Question Answering HotpotQA Recursive Dense Retriever ANS-EM 0.623 # 15
ANS-F1 0.753 # 16
SUP-EM 0.575 # 5
SUP-F1 0.809 # 14
JOINT-EM 0.418 # 10
JOINT-F1 0.666 # 14

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