arXiv AI

Search Shapes Conclusions: Auditing Evidence Selection Bias in Deep Research Agents

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

CITECHOICE: A Causal Audit of How Document Presentation Redistributes Citation Credit in Agentic Search

CITECHOICE is a causal audit that examines how the presentation of documents in an agentic search engine redistributes citation credit. Using 129 everyday‑query transcripts, the study compares structured versus prose renderings of the same source while keeping all other transcript elements fixed. The results show that structured rendering increases the target’s citation count by about half a citation per answer without adding total citations or diminishing competitors’ credit, while also revealing that rank position has a larger effect on citation rates than presentation order alone.

By Sriram Selvam, Anneswa Ghosh
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 17

LENS: In-Context Search via Latent Evidence Exploration over Dynamic Raw Documents

LLM agents increasingly answer questions over dynamic raw-document collections, where files may change before preprocessing, and relevant evidence (spans, sections, pages, or tables) is query-dependent. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches pre-materialize evidence via fixed chunking, embeddings, or persistent indexes: effective for lookup, yet costly, stale-prone, and committed to a granularity before the query is known.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

AI Assistance for Human Review of Default Judgments

arXiv:2607. 01256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Overwhelmed courts in the United States review millions of default judgments each year.

By Theodora Worledge, Othman Bensouda Koraichi, Daniel Bernal, Aviv Caspi, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Carlos Guestrin, David Freeman Engstrom
arXiv AI
Aug 11

From Trajectories to Evidence: Auditable Experimental Records for Industrial Research Agents

arXiv:2608. 05235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research agents increasingly conduct multi-round machine-learning experiments in industrial recommendation settings and retain the resulting trajectories to guide later decisions.

By Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao, Pengbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Ruochen Yang, Yingzhi He, Peng Zhang, Jiangxia Cao, Yusheng Huang, Guohong Mu, Jian Liang, Ruiming Tang, Shuang Yang, Zhaojie Liu, Wenwu Ou, Kun Gai
arXiv AI
Sep 10

AtomCite: Verification and Correction of Supplied Page-Level Citations in Multi-Page Documents

AtomCite is an agentic framework that verifies and corrects page‑level citations in multi‑page documents by parsing answers into claims, checking each claim against the cited page image, and applying a deterministic repair policy. The authors introduce DocCite, the first benchmark for this task, built on MP‑DocVQA and DUDE, containing 928 injected instances and 1,909 verified natural errors. Across Gemini, Claude, and GPT models, AtomCite achieves about 93% verification accuracy and improves citation precision from 34% to 87‑90%, while also enhancing hallucination detection in open‑source models.

By Chen Qian, Yimeng Wang, Yu Chen, Lingfei Wu, Andreas Stathopoulos
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

Althea: The Fact-Checking--Metalearning Tradeoff in AI-Assisted Verification

Althea is a retrieval‑augmented system that supports user‑driven claim evaluation, matching standard pipelines on AVeriTeC while improving discrimination between supported and refuted claims. In a longitudinal survey experiment with 961 participants, two AI‑assisted treatments—Exploratory (guided reasoning) and Summary (synthesized verdicts)—initially boosted accuracy and confidence, but these gains faded after the system was removed, leaving no advantage over unrelated news. In contrast, a Self‑search baseline, which lacks a fading procedure, maintained a significant advantage, highlighting a fact‑checking–metalearning tradeoff where methods that improve immediate accuracy may not foster durable literacy gains.

By Svetlana Churina, Kokil Jaidka, Anab Maulana Barik, Harshit Aneja, Cai Yang, Insyirah Binte Imam Mujtahid, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee