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Research: Citations impact LLM and human preferences in Q&A

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A new research paper explores how citations influence human and large language model (LLM) preferences in scientific question answering. The study found that humans tend to prefer diverse citations but a lower overall number, while LLMs exhibit some citation-related preferences, though these vary by model and data, even without direct access to the cited sources. These findings have implications for how preference data is collected for LLM training. AI

IMPACT Understanding how citations influence LLM preferences can lead to more reliable and verifiable AI-generated content.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper published on arXiv concerning LLM behavior. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Research: Citations impact LLM and human preferences in Q&A

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yu Hou, Hal Daum\'e III, Rachel Rudinger, William Walden ·

    On the Role of Citations in Preference Data

    arXiv:2608.21376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many NLP tasks require systems to provide attribution in their outputs--i.e. citations to grounding sources. Attribution serves as a bulwark against model hallucination and as a means for users to verify the credibility of model o…

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