Tracing the Cascade: A Topology-Aware Evaluation Framework for Scientific Agent Hallucinations

arXiv:2608.00711 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-01

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

• Hallucination — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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