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Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated fact-checking (AFC) by enabling unified, end-to-end verification pipelines rather than isolated components. While large proprietary models achieve strong performance, their closed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Malin Astrid Larsson , Harald Fosen Grunnaleite , Vinay Setty

Document understanding is a long standing practical task. Vision Language Models (VLMs) have gradually become a primary approach in this domain, demonstrating effective performance on single page tasks. However, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Keliang Liu , Zizhi Chen , Mingcheng Li , Jingqun Tang , Dingkang Yang , Lihua Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess general world knowledge but often struggle to generate precise predictions in structured, domain-specific contexts such as simulations. These limitations arise from their inability to ground their broad,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Guillaume Levy , Cedric Colas , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Thomas Carta , Clement Romac

We introduce ClaimCheck, an LLM-guided automatic fact-checking system designed to verify real-world claims using live Web evidence and small language models. Unlike prior systems that rely on large, closed-source models and static knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

The proliferation of misinformation on social media has raised significant societal concerns, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and LLaMA2 have been envisioned as possible tools for detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianyi Huang , Jingyuan Yi , Peiyang Yu , Xiaochuan Xu

Large language models (LLMs) power deep research agents that synthesize information from hundreds of web sources into cited reports, yet these citations cannot be reliably verified. Current approaches either trust models to self-cite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hailey Onweller , Elias Lumer , Austin Huber , Pia Ramchandani , Vamse Kumar Subbiah , Corey Feld

Large language models (LLMs) and large multimodal models (LMMs) promise to accelerate biomedical discovery, yet their reliability remains unclear. We introduce ARIEL (AI Research Assistant for Expert-in-the-Loop Learning), an open-source…

Claim verification with large language models (LLMs) has recently attracted growing attention, due to their strong reasoning capabilities and transparent verification processes compared to traditional answer-only judgments. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qi He , Cheng Qian , Xiusi Chen , Bingxiang He , Yi R. Fung , Heng Ji

Large language models (LLMs) possess impressive linguistic capabilities but often fail to faithfully retain factual knowledge, leading to hallucinations and unreliable outputs. Understanding LLMs' knowledge deficiencies by exhaustively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linxin Song , Xuwei Ding , Jieyu Zhang , Taiwei Shi , Ryotaro Shimizu , Rahul Gupta , Yang Liu , Jian Kang , Jieyu Zhao

Advances towards more faithful and traceable answers of Large Language Models (LLMs) are crucial for various research and practical endeavors. One avenue in reaching this goal is basing the answers on reliable sources. However, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tobias Schimanski , Jingwei Ni , Mathias Kraus , Elliott Ash , Markus Leippold

Self-detection for Large Language Models (LLMs) seeks to evaluate the trustworthiness of the LLM's output by leveraging its own capabilities, thereby alleviating the issue of output hallucination. However, existing self-detection approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Moxin Li , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Fengbin Zhu , Qifan Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Providing Language Models (LMs) with relevant evidence in the context (either via retrieval or user-provided) can significantly improve their ability to provide better-grounded responses. However, recent studies have found that LMs often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhining Liu , Rana Ali Amjad , Ravinarayana Adkathimar , Tianxin Wei , Hanghang Tong

Fact-checking is necessary to address the increasing volume of misinformation. Traditional fact-checking relies on manual analysis to verify claims, but it is slow and resource-intensive. This study establishes baseline comparisons for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Premtim Sahitaj , Iffat Maab , Junichi Yamagishi , Jawan Kolanowski , Sebastian Möller , Vera Schmitt

The rapid development of social platforms exacerbates the dissemination of misinformation, which stimulates the research in fact verification. Recent studies tend to leverage semantic features to solve this problem as a single-hop task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Han Cao , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Detecting factual errors in textual information, whether generated by large language models (LLM) or curated by humans, is crucial for making informed decisions. LLMs' inability to attribute their claims to external knowledge and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Farima Fatahi Bayat , Kun Qian , Benjamin Han , Yisi Sang , Anton Belyi , Samira Khorshidi , Fei Wu , Ihab F. Ilyas , Yunyao Li

The objectives that Large Language Models (LLMs) implicitly optimize remain dangerously opaque, making trustworthy alignment and auditing a grand challenge. While Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) can infer reward functions from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Matthieu Bou , Nyal Patel , Arjun Jagota , Satyapriya Krishna , Sonali Parbhoo

How retrieved documents are used in language models (LMs) for long-form generation task is understudied. We present two controlled studies on retrieval-augmented LM for long-form question answering (LFQA): one fixing the LM and varying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hung-Ting Chen , Fangyuan Xu , Shane Arora , Eunsol Choi

Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate inaccurate responses (hallucinations) when faced with questions beyond their knowledge scope. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses this by leveraging external knowledge, but a critical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haoxiang Jin , Ronghan Li , Zixiang Lu , Qiguang Miao

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has motivated research on decision-making in multi-agent systems, where multiple agents collaborate to achieve shared objectives. Existing aggregation approaches, such as voting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zheng Zhang , Cuong C. Nguyen , Kevin Wells , Gustavo Carneiro

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a widely-used tool for information seeking, but their generated outputs are prone to hallucination. In this work, our aim is to allow LLMs to generate text with citations, improving their factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tianyu Gao , Howard Yen , Jiatong Yu , Danqi Chen