AI RESEARCH

CounterRefine: Answer-Conditioned Counterevidence Retrieval for Inference-Time Knowledge Repair in Factual Question Answering

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.16091v1 Announce Type: cross In factual question answering, many errors are not failures of access but failures of commitment: the system retrieves relevant evidence, yet still settles on the wrong answer. We present CounterRefine, a lightweight inference-time repair layer for retrieval-grounded question answering.