AI RESEARCH
Citation Failure: Definition, Analysis and Efficient Mitigation
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2510.20303v3 Announce Type: replace Citations from LLM-based RAG systems are supposed to simplify response verification. However, this goal is undermined in cases of citation failure, where a model generates a helpful response, but fails to generate citations to complete evidence. In contrast to previous work, we propose to disentangle this from response failure, where the response itself is flawed, and citing complete evidence is impossible.