Triggering Multi-Hop Reasoning for Question Answering in Language Models
  using Soft Prompts and Random Walks
Authors: name: Kanishka Misra; name: Cicero Nogueira dos Santos; name: Siamak Shakeri
Published: 2023-06-06 20:45:18

Abstract: Despite readily memorizing world knowledge about entities, pre-trained
language models (LMs) struggle to compose together two or more facts to perform
multi-hop reasoning in question-answering tasks. In this work, we propose
techniques that improve upon this limitation by relying on random walks over
structured knowledge graphs. Specifically, we use soft prompts to guide LMs to
chain together their encoded knowledge by learning to map multi-hop questions
to random walk paths that lead to the answer. Applying our methods on two T5
LMs shows substantial improvements over standard tuning approaches in answering
questions that require 2-hop reasoning.