Exploiting Intrinsic Duality for Multi-Hop Question Generation

Abstract:Multi hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions from multiple given documents and target answers, whereas question answering (QA) focuses on deriving answers from documents given specific questions. Although MQG and QA are inherently dual tasks, most existing MQG studies largely overlook this intrinsic duality. To address this limitation, we propose QQ, a novel framework that exploits the duality between Question and answer for multi hop Question generation. Specifically, QQ employs a unified architecture functioning simultaneously as both an MQG and a QA model to fully leverage their interdependence. Our framework is driven by two key mechanisms: (i) enforcing bidirectional alignment constraints to ensure strict mutual correspondence between the questions generated by the MQG model and the answers produced by the QA model; and (ii) applying contrastive learning to pull paired question answer representations closer while pushing unpaired ones apart, thereby reinforcing this correspondence. Extensive automatic and human evaluations on the HotpotQA and MuSiQue datasets demonstrate that the QQ framework significantly improves the quality of generated multi hop questions.

Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2608.00712 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2608.00712v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

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