Challenge: Existing work on open-domain multi-hop question answering relies on off-the-shelf information retrieval techniques to retrieve answer passages.
Approach: They propose a new subproblem for open-domain multi-hop question answering . they aim to recognize the anchor from a set of start passages with a reading comprehension model .
Outcome: The proposed method significantly improves the baseline method on the open-domain hotpotQA benchmark.

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