arXiv:2607.10562cs.AI2026-07中稿 · LREC 2026

新数据集挑战大模型多跳推理,逼其真实依赖上下文。

CRiT-QA: Evaluating Multi-hop Reasoning with Counterfactual Chains and Distractor Traps

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  • 用反事实实体替换事实链,强制模型依赖上下文
  • 引入多锚点干扰路径,使模型无法靠捷径得分
  • 暴露大模型在复杂推理中的脆弱性,适合评估真实推理能力

评估大语言模型的多跳推理能力仍具挑战。现有模型在标准数据集上表现优异,但常依赖内部参数化知识而非严格遵循给定上下文,且利用数据集捷径(如单文档线索或类型匹配),削弱了跨文档证据整合的需求。我们提出CRiT-QA(反事实推理与陷阱),专门应对上述问题。通过将事实推理链替换为包含反事实实体的链,消除对记忆知识的依赖,并强制上下文依赖;同时注入多锚点干扰链——看似合理但错误的推理路径,在不同推理步骤中分叉。这些陷阱迫使模型完整追踪推理过程,而非利用浅层启发式策略。实验表明,大模型在CRiT-QA上的性能显著下降,暴露出对反事实条件和干扰路径的敏感性。因此,CRiT-QA成为评估真实多跳推理能力的严格诊断工具,并为构建更可靠、基于证据的大模型提供基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Evaluating the multi-hop reasoning capabilities of large language models remains a significant challenge. Although current models achieve strong results on existing multi-hop question answering datasets, such performance often masks two critical vulnerabilities: (1) reliance on internal parametric knowledge rather than adherence to the provided context, and (2) exploitation of dataset shortcuts, such as single-document cues or type-matching, that diminish the need for genuine evidence aggregation across multiple documents. We introduce CRiT-QA (Counterfactual Reasoning with Traps), a dataset explicitly designed to address both limitations. To neutralize reliance on memorized knowledge and enforce strict context dependency, CRiT-QA transforms factual reasoning chains with counterfactual entities. Furthermore, it injects multi-anchor distractor chains, plausible but incorrect reasoning paths that diverge at different hops. These traps require models to follow the entire reasoning process rather than exploiting shallow heuristics. Our experiments show that LLMs exhibit substantial performance degradation on CRiT-QA compared to standard datasets, exposing their vulnerability to counterfactual conditions and distractor traps. CRiT-QA thus serves as a rigorous diagnostic tool for evaluating genuine multi-hop reasoning and provides a foundation for developing more reliable, evidence-grounded LLMs.

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