# Multi-Hop Question Answering on HotpotQA (Accuracy)

Source: [Multi-Hop Question Answering on HotpotQA (Accuracy)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/multi-hop-question-answering-on-hotpotqa-accuracy>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-03-11T06:47:12.188Z

Evaluation of model performance on the HotpotQA dataset for multi-hop question answering, specifically measured using the Accuracy metric.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Multi-Hop Question Answering |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | HotpotQA |
| Metric | Accuracy |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 30 of 30 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Accuracy](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/multi-hop-question-answering-on-hotpotqa-accuracy.md?metric=Accuracy>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Accuracy | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SkillOrchestra+ | 44.2 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| HCAPO (Ours) | 42.1 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| GiGPO | 41.6 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| SkillOrchestra | 39 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| HCAPO (Ours) | 38.6 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| StepSearch | 38.6 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Search-R1 | 37 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| GiGPO | 36.9 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Router-R1 | 35.2 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| ZeroSearch | 34.6 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| StepSearch | 34.5 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Search-R1 | 32.4 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Largest LLM | 27.8 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| ZeroSearch | 27.4 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Prompt LLM | 26.8 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| RouterDC | 24.4 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| R1-Instruct | 23.7 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Search-R1 | 23.6 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| GraphRouter | 23.4 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| FrugalGPT | 23.4 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| KNN Router | 22.4 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| RAG | 21.6 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| BERT Router | 21.6 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| R1-Instruct | 20.8 | Not recorded | 69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e |
| Prompt LLM+ | 20.6 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| SFT | 19.8 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| MLP Router | 19.8 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| CoT | 16.8 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| KNN Router+ | 15.4 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |
| Vanilla | 14 | Not recorded | 699d30a46017c4460ffab56f |

### SkillOrchestra+

Accuracy: 44.2. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0fa.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/jiayuww/SkillOrchestra>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Skill-based Routing","Orchestrator Configuration":"Best/Multiple"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### HCAPO (Ours)

Accuracy: 42.1. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad453.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GiGPO

Accuracy: 41.6. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad452.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7b281e209131cea86eca.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SkillOrchestra

Accuracy: 39. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/jiayuww/SkillOrchestra>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Skill-based Routing","Orchestrator Configuration":"Single"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### HCAPO (Ours)

Accuracy: 38.6. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StepSearch

Accuracy: 38.6. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad451.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea79568.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1

Accuracy: 37. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GiGPO

Accuracy: 36.9. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7b281e209131cea86eca.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Router-R1

Accuracy: 35.2. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa797c1e209131cea7dc45.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"RL-based Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ZeroSearch

Accuracy: 34.6. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad450.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea79568.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### StepSearch

Accuracy: 34.5. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea79568.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1

Accuracy: 32.4. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad449.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Largest LLM

Accuracy: 27.8. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0ee.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ZeroSearch

Accuracy: 27.4. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa789d1e209131cea79568.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Prompt LLM

Accuracy: 26.8. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0ef.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### RouterDC

Accuracy: 24.4. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa75041e209131cea65450.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/shuhao02/RouterDC>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### R1-Instruct

Accuracy: 23.7. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad448.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1

Accuracy: 23.6. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0ed.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"No Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GraphRouter

Accuracy: 23.4. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa777b1e209131cea737d1.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FrugalGPT

Accuracy: 23.4. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6f421e209131cea44942.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### KNN Router

Accuracy: 22.4. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72ac1e209131cea57c60.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### RAG

Accuracy: 21.6. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0eb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa797c1e209131cea7dc45.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"No Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BERT Router

Accuracy: 21.6. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### R1-Instruct

Accuracy: 20.8. Result ID: 69b10fd66dbb7075b95ad44e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b0f6e52d603e6de3e45b4e.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Type":"RL Training","Base Model":"Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Prompt LLM+

Accuracy: 20.6. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing","Turn Protocol":"multi turn"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SFT

Accuracy: 19.8. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0ea.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"No Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### MLP Router

Accuracy: 19.8. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72ac1e209131cea57c60.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### CoT

Accuracy: 16.8. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0ec.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e571e209131cea3f27b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"No Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### KNN Router+

Accuracy: 15.4. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0f2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"Heuristic & Discriminative Routing","Turn Protocol":"multi turn"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Vanilla

Accuracy: 14. Result ID: 699e525c5698665ec411c0e9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/699d30a46017c4460ffab56f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Routing Strategy":"No Routing"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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