# Question Answering on HotpotQA (test) (Unreliability Rate Metric)

Source: [Question Answering on HotpotQA (test) (Unreliability Rate Metric)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/question-answering-on-hotpotqa-test-unreliability-rate-metric>)

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

Data updated: 2026-06-30T09:21:57.137Z

Evaluation of model performance on the test split of the HotpotQA dataset for Question Answering, specifically reporting the Unreliability Rate.

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 | Question Answering |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | HotpotQA (test) |
| Metric | Unreliability Rate |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Lower is better |
| Results loaded | 28 of 28 |
| 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

- [Unreliability Rate](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/question-answering-on-hotpotqa-test-unreliability-rate-metric.md?metric=Unreliability%20Rate>): Lower is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Unreliability Rate | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KbSD | 38.8 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| KbSD | 41.6 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| KbPO | 51.8 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ReACT | 57.19 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| KbPO | 57.6 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| TCRAG | 59.17 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Search-R1 | 61.11 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Search-R1 | 62.76 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ARPO | 63.52 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| FL-RAG | 65.58 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ReACT | 65.63 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ReSearch | 66.04 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ReSearch | 69.61 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Mem1 | 70.02 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| FS-RAG | 70.79 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| COT | 70.9 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| AEPO | 71.29 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| FL-RAG | 73.22 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Base | 73.37 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| IRCOT | 73.71 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| FS-RAG | 74.15 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| ARPO | 74.8 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| IRCOT | 75.5 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Base | 75.92 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| COT | 76.18 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| TCRAG | 78.06 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| Mem1 | 79.85 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |
| AEPO | 86.15 | Not recorded | 6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3 |

### KbSD

Unreliability Rate: 38.8. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### KbSD

Unreliability Rate: 41.6. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957897.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### KbPO

Unreliability Rate: 51.8. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReACT

Unreliability Rate: 57.19. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6eb41e209131cea41992.md>)

[Implementation](<https://react-lm.github.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### KbPO

Unreliability Rate: 57.6. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957896.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TCRAG

Unreliability Rate: 59.17. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa74801e209131cea61f73.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1

Unreliability Rate: 61.11. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

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

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1

Unreliability Rate: 62.76. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957892.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

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

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ARPO

Unreliability Rate: 63.52. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957894.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a331e209131cea81b93.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FL-RAG

Unreliability Rate: 65.58. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70f21e209131cea4e444.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReACT

Unreliability Rate: 65.63. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6eb41e209131cea41992.md>)

[Implementation](<https://react-lm.github.io/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReSearch

Unreliability Rate: 66.04. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957891.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ReSearch

Unreliability Rate: 69.61. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Mem1

Unreliability Rate: 70.02. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a091e209131cea80b6f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FS-RAG

Unreliability Rate: 70.79. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6fd81e209131cea4791d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/stonybrooknlp/ircot>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### COT

Unreliability Rate: 70.9. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957899.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"No RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### AEPO

Unreliability Rate: 71.29. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957893.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c281e209131cea8cbf1.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FL-RAG

Unreliability Rate: 73.22. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70f21e209131cea4e444.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Base

Unreliability Rate: 73.37. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957898.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"No RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### IRCOT

Unreliability Rate: 73.71. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95789d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6fd81e209131cea4791d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/stonybrooknlp/ircot>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FS-RAG

Unreliability Rate: 74.15. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6fd81e209131cea4791d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/stonybrooknlp/ircot>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ARPO

Unreliability Rate: 74.8. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a331e209131cea81b93.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### IRCOT

Unreliability Rate: 75.5. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6fd81e209131cea4791d.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/stonybrooknlp/ircot>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Base

Unreliability Rate: 75.92. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"No RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### COT

Unreliability Rate: 76.18. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c95788b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"No RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TCRAG

Unreliability Rate: 78.06. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957890.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa74801e209131cea61f73.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Mem1

Unreliability Rate: 79.85. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c957895.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a091e209131cea80b6f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-3B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### AEPO

Unreliability Rate: 86.15. Result ID: 6a438a9afbc373592c9578a1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a434da0ba73165dbb743dc3.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c281e209131cea8cbf1.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"Qwen2.5-7B","Paradigm":"RL-based Agentic RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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