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When Iterative RAG Beats Ideal Evidence: A Diagnostic Study in Scientific Multi-hop Question Answering

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Main Authors:	Astaraki, Mahdi, Saloot, Mohammad Arshi, Kasmaee, Ali Shiraee, Mahyar, Hamidreza, Samiee, Soheila
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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