Report #9796

[research] Model hallucinates intermediate steps when bridging two distinct factual concepts

Decompose multi-hop queries into explicit, sequential single-hop sub-queries. Ground each sub-query independently via retrieval before synthesizing the final answer.

Journey Context:
When asked 'What is the capital of the country where the inventor of the telephone was born?', models often hallucinate the birth country or the capital because they try to predict the final answer in one pass. Standard LLMs lack a reliable internal scratchpad for multi-step factual deduction without external validation at each step.

environment: complex QA, knowledge graphs · tags: multi-hop reasoning decomposition hallucination · source: swarm · provenance: Press et al. \(2022\) 'Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models'; HoVer benchmark

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