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Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

sigir26-193 · Full research paper · Heydar Soudani, Hamed Zamani, Faegheh Hasibi
Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Re · 50% Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness · 50%
Abstract

Retrieval-augmented reasoning (RAR) is a recent evolution of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that employs multiple reasoning steps for retrieval and generation. While effective for some complex queries, RAR remains vulnerable to errors and misleading outputs. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) offers methods to estimate the confidence of systems' outputs. These methods, however, often handle simple queries with no retrieval or single-step retrieval, without properly handling RAR setup. Accurate estimation of UQ for RAR requires accounting for all sources of uncertainty, including those arising from retrieval and generation. In this paper, we account for these sources and introduce Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Consistency (R2C), a novel UQ method for RAR. The core idea of R2C is to perturb the multi-step reasoning process by applying various actions to reasoning steps. These perturbations alter the retriever's input, which shifts its output and consequently modifies the generator's input at the next step. Through this iterative feedback loop, the retriever and generator continuously reshape each other's inputs, enabling us to capture uncertainty arising from both components. Experiments on five popular RAR systems across diverse QA datasets show that R2C improves AUROC by over 5% on average compared to the state-of-the-art UQ baselines. Extrinsic evaluations using R2C as an external signal further confirm its effectiveness for two downstream tasks: in the Abstention task, it achieves ~5% gains in both F1Abstain and AccAbstain; in Model Selection, it improves exact match by ~7% over single models and ~3% over selection methods. Code is available on https://github.com/HeydarSoudani/R2C.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Jinheon Baek
45
74 Efficient Real-time Refinement of Language Model Text Generation (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
74 Adaptive-RAG: Learning to Adapt Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models through Question Complexity (2024) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
45 Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Small Language Models in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks (2023) Retrieval-Augmented and Open-Domain QA
2 Qinggang Zhang
45
74 FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
72 You Don't Need Pre-Built Graphs for RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Adaptive Reasoning Structures (2026) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
46 Cost-efficient Knowledge-based Question Answering with Large Language Models (2024) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Zhijing Wu 0001 46
Area-chair candidates (7)
Xiaoxi Li 0005 4615 papers
Zhijing Wu 0001 assigned 469 papers
Hongjin Qian 4412 papers
Xiaoxue Zang 434 papers
Jun Xu 0001 402 papers
Kam-Fai Wong 406 papers
Dacheng Tao 375 papers

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1 Xingyu Tan 0001 50 3
58 HydraRAG: Structured Cross-Source Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
58 MemoTime: Memory-Augmented Temporal Knowledge Graph Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning (2026) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
4 Jinheon Baek assigned 45 3
74 Efficient Real-time Refinement of Language Model Text Generation (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
74 Adaptive-RAG: Learning to Adapt Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models through Question Complexity (2024) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
5 Qinggang Zhang assigned 45 3
74 FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
72 You Don't Need Pre-Built Graphs for RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Adaptive Reasoning Structures (2026) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
6 Shu Zhou 0002 44 3
70 SCORE-RAG: Self-Correcting Exploration-Exploitation Retrieval for Multi-hop Question Answering (2026) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
69 Calibrating Uncertainty with Cross-Model Consistency for LLM Hallucination Mitigation (2026) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
7 Jing Liu 0022 44 3
75 Reinforced Informativeness Optimization for Long-Form Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2026) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
74 Unveiling Knowledge Utilization Mechanisms in LLM-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
10 Weiwei Sun 0001 42 3
74 Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations (2023) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
50 Direct Retrieval-augmented Optimization: Synergizing Knowledge Selection and Language Models (2026) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
11 Yujia Zhou 0002 42 3
74 Robust Fine-tuning for Retrieval Augmented Generation against Retrieval Defects (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
47 RetroLLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Retrieve Fine-grained Evidence within Generation (2025) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
12 Wenyu Huang 42 3
45 Masking in Multi-hop QA: An Analysis of How Language Models Perform with Context Permutation (2025) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
45 Prompting large language models with knowledge graphs for question answering involving long-tail facts (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
13 Di Wu 0054 42 3
74 Synchronous Faithfulness Monitoring for Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2024) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
44 LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory (2025) Conversational Search and Retrieval
14 Yu-An Liu 0028 41 3
74 AdversarialCoT: Single-Document Retrieval Poisoning for LLM Reasoning (2026) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
74 Compete to Complete: Co-opetition Adversarial Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2026) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
15 Yu Gu 0016 41 3
58 HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models (2024) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
46 Few-shot In-context Learning on Knowledge Base Question Answering (2023) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
16 Xiao Zhang 0034 40 3
74 ReDeEP: Detecting Hallucination in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Mechanistic Interpretability (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
74 LargePiG for Hallucination-Free Query Generation: Your Large Language Model is Secretly a Pointer Generator (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
18 Farzad Shami 40 3
40 From Single to Multi-agent Reasoning: Advancing GeneGPT for Genomics QA (2026) Retrieval-Augmented and Open-Domain QA
39 Fact Verification in Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs (2025) KG-Augmented LLM Reasoning
19 Ori Yoran 40 3
61 Making Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Robust to Irrelevant Context (2024) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
47 Answering Questions by Meta-Reasoning over Multiple Chains of Thought (2023) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking
20 Xi Ye 0003 40 3
74 Effective Large Language Model Adaptation for Improved Grounding and Citation Generation (2024) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
45 Connecting Attributions and QA Model Behavior on Realistic Counterfactuals (2021) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
22 Kaixin Ma 40 3
75 Chain-of-Note: Enhancing Robustness in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (2024) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
44 Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use? (2024) Evidence Selection and Context Refinement
23 Idan Szpektor 40 3
72 DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering (2023) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
41 On the Robustness of Dialogue History Representation in Conversational Question Answering: A Comprehensive Study and a New Prompt-based Method (2023) Conversational Search and Retrieval
24 Jiapu Wang 40 3
60 Decomposing and Revising What Language Models Generate (2025) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
60 Atomic Fact Decomposition Helps Attributed Question Answering (2025) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
25 Adam Jatowt COI: co-author 39 3
45 Wrong Answers Can Also Be Useful: PlausibleQA - A Large-Scale QA Dataset with Answer Plausibility Scores (2025) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
45 Inferential Question Answering (2026) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
26 Chen Zhao 0013 39 3
60 SportReason: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning across Tables and Text for Sports Question Answering (2025) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
45 TaPERA: Enhancing Faithfulness and Interpretability in Long-Form Table QA by Content Planning and Execution-based Reasoning (2024) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
27 Shuaiqiang Wang 38 3
68 Thinking Forward and Backward: Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning (2026) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
67 Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2025) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
28 Falk Scholer COI: co-author 38 3
44 WikiHowQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Document Non-Factoid Question Answering (2023) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
42 UQV100: A Test Collection with Query Variability (2016) Test Collection Construction and Pooling
29 Jialong Wu 0007 38 3
43 WebWalker: Benchmarking LLMs in Web Traversal (2025) Agentic and Deep Search RAG
39 OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking (2025) Deep Research and Report Generation
30 Archiki Prasad 38 3
74 AdaCAD: Adaptively Decoding to Balance Conflicts between Contextual and Parametric Knowledge (2025) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
41 PRInTS: Reward Modeling for Long-Horizon Information Seeking (2026) Reward Modeling and Process Supervision
31 Wonduk Seo 38 3
38 A New Query Expansion Approach for Enhancing Information Retrieval via Agent-Mediated Dialogic Inquiry (2026) Query Reformulation and Expansion
38 Automated Visualization Code Synthesis via Multi-path Reasoning and Feedback-Driven Optimizations (2026) Reasoning Evaluation and Benchmarks
32 Negar Arabzadeh 38 3
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42 MS MARCO Chameleons: Challenging the MS MARCO Leaderboard with Extremely Obstinate Queries (2021) Test Collection Construction and Pooling
33 Qingyi Si 38 3
74 Breaking the Trade-Off Between Faithfulness and Expressiveness for Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Conflict and Faithfulness
43 Are Large Language Models Table-based Fact-Checkers? (2024) Automated Fact Checking and Claim Verification
34 Xinying Qian 38 3
57 TimeR⁴ : Time-aware Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (2024) Multi-Hop and Iterative Retrieval Reasoning
45 Beyond Timestamps: Bridging Forward and Backward Reasoning in Temporal Numerical and Relational Understanding (2026) Multi-hop and Complex Reasoning QA
35 Armin Toroghi 38 3
41 CommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models (2026) Knowledge Graph Question Answering
39 Bayesian Inference with Complex Knowledge Graph Evidence (2024) Knowledge Graph Question Answering
36 Qisheng Hu 37 3
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