CiteGuard-RAG: A Validation-Centered AI System for Evidence-Grounded Question Answering

arXiv:2609.15830 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: Submitted to Engineering Reports. 22 pages, 2 figures, 12 tables

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

Terminology

• Hallucination — 42× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 37× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 30× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 28× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• External Validation — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Domain Shift — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 3× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hallucination Mitigation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Interpretability of Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 1× in this paper
• Natural Language Inference (NLI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Mistral 7B
• Qwen Technical Report
• MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers

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