MTRAG-UN: A Benchmark for Open Challenges in Multi-Turn RAG Conversations

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Authors: Sara Brin Rosenthal, Yannis Katsis, Vraj Shah, Lihong He, Lucian Popa, Marina Danilevsky
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Abstract

We present MTRAG-UN, a benchmark for exploring open challenges in multi-turn retrieval augmented generation, a popular use of large language models. We release a benchmark of 666 tasks containing over 2,800 conversation turns across 6 domains with accompanying corpora. Our experiments show that retrieval and generation models continue to struggle on conversations with UNanswerable, UNderspecified, and NONstandalone questions and UNclear responses. Our benchmark is available at https://github.com/IBM/mt-rag-benchmark

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topic Modeling Speech and dialogue systems Natural Language Processing Techniques

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
26 February 2026
Document type
Preprint