TRACE: Target-Aware Retrieval, Attributed Evidence, and Contract-Constrained Extraction for LitTraceQA

arXiv:2609.38861 · cs.CL, cs.DL, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.DL, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/sachinkg12/trace

Terminology

• Trace — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Additive Decomposition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LitTraceQA: A Benchmark for Multi-Stage Grounding and Verification in Scientific Question Answering
• Where Does the Answer Come From? Benchmarking View-Level Visual Evidence Identification in Multi-View MLLMs for Autonomous Driving
• C-Pack: Packed Resources For General Chinese Embeddings

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