arXiv AI June 6, 2026 By Yuejie Li, Yueying Hua, Ke Yang, Li Zhang, Yueping He, Yueping He, Ruiqi Li, Bolin Chen, Tao Wang, Bowen Li, Chengjun Mao

Answer Presence Drives RAG Rewriting Gains

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arXiv:2606. 05633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented QA pipelines often route retrieved passages through an LLM \emph{rewriter} before a smaller reader, lifting F1 by tens of points on multi-hop benchmarks; this gain is typically credited to improved evidence quality.

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SURE-RAG: Sufficiency and Uncertainty-Aware Evidence Verification for Selective Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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By Jingxi Qiu, Zeyu Han, Cheng Huang

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arXiv AI

Aug 12

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arXiv AI

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Auditable Long-Term Memory: A Deterministic Retrieval Chain Measured at 479/475 of 500 on LongMemEval-S

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By Christopher J. Chanhnourack

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arXiv AI

Sep 1

LLM Judges Verify Presence, Not Absence: Omission Blindness in AI Clinical Notes and What Recovers It

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arXiv AI

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Sequential knowledge editing breaks a model's ability to tell good evidence from bad, without costing it accuracy

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