Challenge: Existing knowledge based question answering systems are trained based on labeled reasoning paths, which hinder their performance.
Approach: They propose a KBQA system which leverages multiple reasoning paths’ information and only requires labeled answer as supervision.
Outcome: The proposed system can leverage multiple reasoning paths’ information and only requires labeled answer as supervision.

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