eTracer: Polarity-Aware Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2601.03669 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-01-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-01-07

Updated: 2026-09-26

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Oral)

Code: https://github.com/chubohao/eTracer

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

Terminology

• Grounding — 98× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Semantic Similarity — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifiability — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ambiguous Claim Rate — 5× in this paper
• F1 Score — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Perplexity — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucinated Claim Rate — 3× in this paper
• Polarity-Flip Consistency Rate — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unverified Claim Rate — 3× in this paper
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Faithful Claim Rate — 2× in this paper
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Tokenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Overview of TREC 2024 Biomedical Generative Retrieval (BioGen) Track
• GPT-4o System Card
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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