Challenge: Knowledge graphs are incomplete with many facts missing, causing performance bottlenecks in many applications.
Approach: They propose a general multi-hop reasoning task that can be formulated as a search process and can be extended to long-distance reasoning scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on baselines in short and long distance reasoning scenarios.

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