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Quantifying Claim Smoothing by LLM Research Agents
Measurement of research-agent claim smoothing against extracted evidence, including source-opening provenance, human checks and judge limitations. The paper distinguishes citation presence from inspected support.
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Measurement of research-agent claim smoothing against extracted evidence, including source-opening provenance, human checks and judge limitations. The paper distinguishes citation presence from inspected support.
Claim-level citations (2)
- supportsResearch agents repeatedly strengthened claims beyond their cited evidence: The study reports material claim-strength exaggeration across its evaluated research systems and datasets; some subsets exceed 22% under its grading method.
Abstract; Section 4, claim-smoothing prevalence
- supportsResearch agents repeatedly strengthened claims beyond their cited evidence: In its examined systems, the study reports that many citations were not opened directly in the underlying traces, making mere citation presence an unreliable provenance measure.
Results; source-opening provenance and evidence packets