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New method estimates knowledge dependencies for reliable QA

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Researchers have developed a new method called Knot to estimate the knowledge dependencies of question-answering models. This technique aims to identify which pieces of information a model relies on to generate an answer, addressing the challenge of noisy and redundant knowledge sources in large language model-based QA systems. Knot uses subset-level counterfactual supervision and models subset sensitivity to provide fine-grained dependency scores, outperforming existing baselines in predicting subset sensitivity and identifying influential knowledge candidates. AI

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New method estimates knowledge dependencies for reliable QA

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Chaodong Tong, Qi Zhang, Nannan Sun, Lei Jiang, Yanbing Liu ·

    Knowledge Dependency Estimation for Reliable Question Answering

    arXiv:2605.28047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable question answering requires identifying not only whether an answer is correct, but also which available knowledge the prediction depends on. In realistic LLM-based QA, this knowledge may come from context, retrieval, decomp…

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