IterCOMP: Reasoning-aware Adaptive Prompt Compression for Multi-hop Question Answering

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arXiv:2608.13588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-hop question answering requires complex reasoning across multiple evidence segments, which often overwhelms retrieval-augmented generation systems with lengthy and noisy contexts, thereby undermining both efficiency and accuracy. While existing prompt compression methods attempt to address this issue, they are typically designed for single-turn queries and fail to capture interdependent reasoning steps. We propose IterCOMP, a unified, train