Why it matters

Self-Ask enables compositional questions. Understanding shapes decomposition.

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The architecture

Detect need for sub-question.

Ask + answer sub-Q.

Continue until answerable.

Self-Ask flowQuestioncompositionalSub-Q + answeriterateComposefinal answerCombines well with retrieval: each sub-Q may query external
Self-Ask.
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How it works end to end

Prompt scaffolds 'Are follow-ups?' pattern.

Combines with search retrieval.

Chain-of-thought variant.