Challenge: Existing work mainly targets the generation of sentence-level citations, lacking specificity about which parts of a sentence are backed by the cited sources.
Approach: They propose to use subsentence-level fine-grained citations to generate more precise location of generated content supported by the cited sources.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the accuracy and trustworthiness of large language models by allowing users to trace the information back to its source and verify its correctness.

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