From Final Artifacts to Trajectories: Retrospective Process Supervision for Evidence-Grounded Long-Form Generation

arXiv:2608.30461 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

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Terminology

• Trace — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Evaluation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Catastrophic Forgetting — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verifiability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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