Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering.

@inproceedings{salemi-2026-pathways, author = {Alireza Salemi and Cheng Li and Mingyang Zhang and Qiaozhu Mei and Zhuowan Li and Spurthi Amba Hombaiah and Weize Kong and Tao Chen and Hamed Zamani and Michael Bendersky}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {5822--5833}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792145}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792145} }