Evidence-Grounded Generation

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Evidence-grounded generation studies how language models can use documents, databases, images, and other sources to produce claims that readers can verify. Common approaches include retrieval-augmented generation, claim-level verification, evidence graphs, citation alignment, and abstention when support is insufficient. Benchmarks increasingly test not only answer accuracy but also whether each claim is supported by the cited evidence, including in medical, scientific, legal, and long-form tasks. A central challenge remains that retrieving relevant evidence does not ensure models will integrate it faithfully, and stricter grounding can trade off against coverage, fluency, or efficiency.

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  1. Dont Stop Early: Scalable Enterprise Deep Research with Controlled Information Flow and Evidence-Aware Termination

    Apr 27, 2026Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit +5Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Salesforce AI Research

  2. FinGround: Detecting and Grounding Financial Hallucinations via Atomic Claim Verification

    Apr 26, 2026Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming YiuLLM Answer VerificationFinancial QA

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2Stellaris AI Limited

  3. MedProbeBench: Systematic Benchmarking at Deep Evidence Integration for Expert-level Medical Guideline

    Apr 20, 2026Jiyao Liu, Jianghan Shen, Sida Song +19HealthcareAI Agent Benchmarks

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · Nanjing University, Nanjing, China +1

  4. ArbGraph: Conflict-Aware Evidence Arbitration for Reliable Long-Form Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Apr 20, 2026Qingying Niu, Yuhao Wang, Ruiyang Ren +2Retrieval-Augmented GenerationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 100872 · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 15213

  5. Learning from AVA: Early Lessons from a Curated and Trustworthy Generative AI for Policy and Development Research

    Apr 20, 2026Nimisha Karnatak, Mohamad Chatila, Daniel Alejandro Pinzón Hernández +3Retrieval-Augmented GenerationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    University of Oxford · The World Bank Group · Nouswise, Inc.

  6. The Provenance Gap in Clinical AI: Evidence-Traceable Temporal Knowledge Graphs for Rare Disease Reasoning

    Apr 18, 2026Md Shamim Ahmed, Maja Dusanic, Moritz Nikolai Kirschner +4Data ProvenanceHealthcare

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark · Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany

  7. DeepER-Med: Advancing Deep Evidence-Based Research in Medicine Through Agentic AI

    Apr 16, 2026Zhizheng Wang, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Joey Chan +19Deep Research AgentsHealthcare

    Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA · Hunterian Neurosurgical Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA · Cancer Data Science Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA +7

  8. InfiniteScienceGym: An Unbounded, Procedurally-Generated Benchmark for Scientific Analysis

    Apr 14, 2026Oliver Bentham, Vivek SrikumarLLM EvaluationScientific Agent Benchmarks

    Kahlert School of Computing University of Utah

  9. Multi-Persona Debate System for Automated Scientific Hypothesis Generation

    Apr 14, 2026Jaeha Oh, Byungchan Kim, Ju Li +2Scientific Hypothesis GenerationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea · Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea · Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +3

  10. ClinicBot: A Guideline-Grounded Clinical Chatbot with Prioritized Evidence RAG and Verifiable Citations

    Apr 11, 2026Navapat Nananukul, Mayank KejriwalClinical QAEvidence-Grounded Generation

    USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA

  11. Facet-Level Tracing of Evidence Uncertainty and Hallucination in RAG

    Apr 10, 2026Passant Elchafei, Monorama Swain, Shahed Masoudian +1Hallucination in RAGRAG Evaluation

    Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Computational Perception, Linz, Austria · Linz Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Austria

  12. MedConclusion: A Benchmark for Biomedical Conclusion Generation from Structured Abstracts

    Apr 7, 2026Weiyue Li, Ruizhi Qian, Yi Li +5Evidence-Grounded GenerationScientific Reasoning in Language Models

  13. Compliance-by-Construction Argument Graphs: Using Generative AI to Produce Evidence-Linked Formal Arguments for Certification-Grade Accountability

    Apr 5, 2026Mahyar T. MoghaddamAI AccountabilityAI Assurance

    SDU Software Engineering, Odense, Denmark

  14. Parallel LLM Reasoning for Bias-Resilient, Robust Conceptual Abstraction

    Apr 4, 2026Aisvarya Adeseye, Jouni Isoaho, Adeyemi AdeseyeLong-Context Reasoning in Language ModelsParallel Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Turku, Turku, Finland · Brilloconnetz Partners avoin yhtiö, Turku, Finland

  15. LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape

    Apr 3, 2026Hita Kambhamettu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Andrew Head +4Research Idea GenerationAI-Assisted Scientific Research

    University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA · Allen Institute for AI Seattle, USA

  16. Are Finer Citations Always Better? Rethinking Granularity for Attributed Generation

    Apr 1, 2026Hexuan Wang, Jingyu Zhang, Benjamin Van Durme +1LLM EvaluationLLM Grounding

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

  17. CrossTrace: A Cross-Domain Dataset of Grounded Scientific Reasoning Traces for Hypothesis Generation

    Mar 30, 2026Andrew Bouras, OMS-II Research FellowScientific Hypothesis GenerationScientific Reasoning in Language Models

    Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine Clearwater, FL 33760, USA

  18. Towards a Medical AI Scientist

    Mar 30, 2026Hongtao Wu, Boyun Zheng, Dingjie Song +5AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryScientific Hypothesis Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Lehigh University · Microsoft Research +1

  19. ESGLens: An LLM-Based RAG Framework for Interactive ESG Report Analysis and Score Prediction

    Mar 29, 2026Tsung-Yu Yang, Meng-Chi ChenDocument Information ExtractionEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  20. PubMed Reasoner: Dynamic Reasoning-based Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Biomedical Question Answering

    Mar 28, 2026Yiqing Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Fabricio MuraiBiomedical QAAgentic RAG

    PayPal · Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  21. Dialogue to Question Generation for Evidence-based Medical Guideline Agent Development

    Mar 25, 2026Zongliang Ji, Ziyang Zhang, Xincheng Tan +5Clinical Decision SupportEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Google Research · University of Toronto, Canada · Vector Institute, Canada +1

  22. PAVE: Premise-Aware Validation and Editing for Retrieval-Augmented LLMs

    Mar 21, 2026Tianyi Huang, Caden Yang, Emily Yin +2Evidence-Grounded QALLM Answer Verification

    Ryquo · App-In Club

  23. sebis at ArchEHR-QA 2026: How Much Can You Do Locally? Evaluating Grounded EHR QA on a Single Notebook

    Mar 14, 2026Ibrahim Ebrar Yurt, Fabian Karl, Tejaswi Choppa +1EHR QAClinical QA

    Technical University of Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology, Germany

  24. Coverage-Controlled Preference Mining from Noisy Claim Verification for Evidence-Grounded Generation

    Mar 11, 2026Weixin Liu, Congning Ni, Qingyuan Song +4Claim VerificationHealthcare

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA · Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA · Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  25. Coordinated Semantic Alignment and Evidence Constraints for Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models

    Mar 4, 2026Xin Chen, Saili Uday Gadgil, Jiarong QiuRetrieval-Augmented GenerationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Cornell University, Ithaca, USA · Virginia polytechnic institute and state University, Blacksburg, USA · University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  26. Evidence-Grounded Subspecialty Reasoning: Evaluating a Curated Clinical Intelligence Layer on the 2025 Endocrinology Board-Style Examination

    Feb 17, 2026Amir Hosseinian, MohammadReza Zare Shahneh, Umer Mansoor +3Clinical Language Model EvaluationEvidence-Grounded Reasoning

    January AI · Stanford University

  27. MAPLE: Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence

    Jan 6, 2026Bohao Chu, Hendrik Damm, Tabea M. G. Pakull +5HealthcareText Summarization

    University of Duisburg-Essen · University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund · University Hospital Essen +1

  28. OARelatedWork: A Large-Scale Dataset of Related Work Sections with Full-texts from Open Access Sources

    May 3, 2024Martin Docekal, Martin Fajcik, Pavel SmrzText SummarizationEvidence-Grounded Generation

    Brno University of Technology