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LLMs struggle to extract conflicting info between narratives, new benchmark shows

Researchers have introduced a new task called Overlap-Unique-Conflict (OUC) extraction, designed to identify agreements, conflicts, and differences between two narratives. They developed a benchmark dataset of approximately 22,000 narrative pairs to support this task. Evaluations of 14 open-source large language models revealed that while extracting unique information is relatively straightforward, identifying overlapping and conflicting clauses remains a significant challenge, even for the strongest models like Gemma-4.31B. Fine-tuning models like Qwen-3-8B showed substantial improvements, but cross-narrative clause extraction, particularly for overlap and conflict, is still an open research problem. AI

IMPACT This research highlights limitations in LLMs' ability to discern nuanced differences and agreements between texts, suggesting areas for future model development and evaluation.

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LLMs struggle to extract conflicting info between narratives, new benchmark shows

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Eftekhar Hossain, Santu Karmaker ·

    Overlap, Unique and Conflict: Can LLMs Extract What They Can Recognize?

    arXiv:2609.38799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding multi-perspective alternative narratives requires identifying how their information agrees, conflicts, or differs across sources. Existing work on cross-text relations largely focuses on categorizing relations between …