Locally Sound, Globally Insufficient: The Local-Global Gap in Multi-Hop Reasoning

arXiv:2609.32496 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Trace — 168× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 61× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 34× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUROC — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AUC — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Thinking mode — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge
• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• Ministral 3
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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