InteGround: On the Evaluation of Verification and Retrieval Planning in Integrative Grounding (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing grounding approaches work well for simple queries, but many real-world information needs require synthesizing multiple pieces of evidence. |
| Approach: | They introduce "integrative grounding" to evaluate the ability to ground large language models in external knowledge sources. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is robust to redundant evidence, but rationalizes using internal knowledge when information is incomplete. |
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