MTRAG-UN: A Benchmark for Open Challenges in Multi-Turn RAG Conversations
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
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 26 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint