THOR: A Theta-Gamma Hierarchical Oscillatory Reasoning Framework for Multi-hop QA
Ziyang Ling University of Science and Technology of China, Ronald X. Xu University of Science and Technology of China, Mingzhai Sun University of Science and Technology of China
原文摘要
Multi-hop question answering requires retrieving and integrating evidence from multiple contexts. Despite the rapid progress of current research, multi-hop reasoning remains constrained by two persistent limitations: attention decay, where the model’s focus on main question degrades as the reasoning chain grows, and error accumulation, where mistakes propagate across hops and compounds into final failure. Inspired by Theta-Gamma hierarchical oscillation which decouples global planning from local retrieval, enabling efficient attention transfer between hops and a verification and repair mechanism that interrupts the accumulation of errors in the wrong paths, we present THOR, a brain-inspired Theta-Gamma hierarchical oscillatory reasoning framework. Extensive comparative experiments and specific validation experiments on multi-hop QA benchmarks demonstrate that THOR improves answer accuracy and robustness while mitigating limitations, showcasing its generalization across different backbones.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表