How Robust Are Automated Fact-Checking Systems? A Cross-Benchmark Evaluation

arXiv:2608.25934 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Code: https://github.com/aidausmanova/FCBench

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic System — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Natural Language Inference (NLI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer
• CLIMATE-FEVER: A Dataset for Verification of Real-World Climate Claims
• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter

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