Adversarial Distractors in Multi-Hop QA Benchmarks: Impact on RAG Retrieval Precision and Accuracy

This report synthesises findings from 13 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: How do adversarial distractors in multi-hop QA benchmarks like HotPotQA impact the retrieval precision and answer accuracy of RAG systems using dense versus sparse retrievers. 9 claims were extracted from source literature; 8 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 8.3/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.

Research goal: How do adversarial distractors in multi-hop QA benchmarks like HotPotQA impact the retrieval precision and answer accuracy of RAG systems using dense versus sparse retrievers?

Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 8.3/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.