AI RESEARCH
Relevant Is Not Warranted: Evidence-Force Calibration for Cited RAG
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.28044v1 Announce Type: new Cited RAG evaluation often treats visible sources as a grounding signal, but a real, topically relevant citation can still under-warrant the attached wording. We study this diagnostic failure as citation laundering: a related source is presented as warrant for an over-strong claim. We