arXiv:2607. 17883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprises will not deploy AI agents they cannot trust, and the most-cited reason for distrust is hallucination: confident, fluent output that is simply not true.
By Bogdan Raduta, Horia Velicu, Alexandru Preda, Serban Chiricescu
arXiv:2606. 16603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes their reasoning difficult to audit.
By Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao, Yuyang Hu, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv:2608. 12877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-hop fact verification, which verifies claims by reasoning over multiple pieces of evidence, is critical for combating misinformation on social media yet remains highly challenging.
By Runze Zhao, Zixin Tang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Leyuan Chang, Xiaopeng Fu, Boyu Qiao, Dongyang Zhang
arXiv:2610.17827v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing approaches to training and evaluating search agents focus heavily on final-answer quality, largely neglecting how generated answers map back t...
By Haochen Zhao, Minsheng Hao, Zheng Li, Yifan Li, Zikang Liu, Bowen Qin, Yuhao Cheng, Chuang Fan, Haosheng Zou, Jeff Chen, Sujian Li
arXiv:2512. 11614v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) relies on retrieved context to guide large language models (LLM), yet treats the retrieval as a heuristic rather than verifiable evidence -- leading to unsupported answers, hallucinations, and reliance on spurious context.
By Bj\"orn Deiseroth, Max Henning H\"oth, Kristian Kersting, Letitia Parcalabescu
The paper introduces TRACE, a fine‑tuning framework for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) that addresses conflicts between retrieved knowledge and a model’s internal knowledge. TRACE uses multi‑agent debate traces to identify correct and incorrect candidates and answer‑shift patterns, providing fine‑grained supervision for reliable knowledge‑source selection. It also incorporates an answer‑completeness regularization mechanism to prevent empty, overly short, or prematurely terminated responses, thereby improving robustness against misleading retrieved content and enhancing answer quality.
By Zhengchen Huang, Yundong Sun, Minrui Song, Shuanglong Yao, Ye Liu, Ji Chen, Xing Wang
The paper introduces FoG, a framework that trains knowledge graph (KG) agents to retrieve the evidence behind their answers. FoG combines evidence‑grounded synthesis, a KG interaction agent, and an evidence‑coverage process reward (ECPR) to ensure that every answer is supported by retrieved triples. Experiments on three KGQA benchmarks show that 3B–4B open‑source agents trained with FoG outperform larger baselines in both answer accuracy and evidence coverage, even with zero‑shot cross‑KG transfer.
By Zongyuan Sun, Shuai Zhao, Yingjun Du, Ke Shu, Ziyue Zhu, Haoran Luo
The paper introduces SCHEMA, a topology‑aware evaluation framework designed to assess hallucinations in large language model agents used for scientific research. SCHEMA builds scientific concept graphs from benchmark seeds and literature evidence, then generates graph‑grounded tasks such as claim verification, multi‑hop reasoning, open‑ended explanation, and experimental code generation. It evaluates agents using a trajectory hallucination pipeline that assigns a topology‑weighted severity score and a multi‑agent counterfactual attribution module that identifies the causal mechanisms behind failures. The study finds that hallucinations tend to cluster around highly connected knowledge hubs and that a model’s final accuracy can be misleading, as correct answers may arise from structurally flawed reasoning.
"whyItMatters":"The findings highlight that terminal accuracy alone is insufficient for high‑stakes scientific applications, underscoring the need for mechanism‑level evaluation grounded in knowledge topology."
By Xinshun Feng, Ziqi Miao, Lijun Li, Jing Shao
arXiv:2511. 03217v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel in generating fluent utterances but can lack reliable grounding in verified information.
By Shaghayegh Kolli, Richard Rosenbaum, Timo Cavelius, Lasse Strothe, Andrii Lata, Jana Diesner
arXiv:2610.08388v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in question answering, yet they still frequently suffer from hallucinations on kno...
By Yang Hong, Yajun Yang, Xin Wang, Liping Jing, Qinghua Hu
arXiv:2607. 17266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing.
By Peiji Yu, Xin Chen, Tianxing Wu
arXiv:2610.33511v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Textual graph question answering (GraphQA) and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) have gained increasing attention as a way to groun...
By Kaifeng Jin, Yuchen Yan, Zhichen Zeng, Xiao Lin, Lihui Liu, Yinglong Xia, Hanghang Tong