@article{
astaraki2026when,
title={When Iterative {RAG} Beats Ideal Evidence: A Diagnostic Study in Scientific Multi-hop Question Answering},
author={Mahdi Astaraki and Mohammad Arshi Saloot and Ali Shiraee Kasmaee and Hamidreza Mahyar and Soheila Samiee},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=pa5TnBdyDP},
note={}
}