让大模型生成更精准的引用,避免无证据支撑的结论。
CAGE: Cognitive Attribution Graphs for Faithful Inline Citation Generation in Long-Form Question Answering

- 用认知图谱显式建模答案与证据的对应关系。
- 在三个数据集上表现领先,引用准确率显著提升。
- 适合需要高可信度回答的长文本问答场景。
长篇问答越来越依赖检索到的证据以确保大模型输出可验证,其中内联引用需将每个主张追溯到源文档。然而,现有系统常将主题相关但不足以支持主张的文档作为引用。我们识别出引用模糊性是一个结构性挑战:端到端生成必须隐式解决主张-文档的组合分配问题,导致证据边界模糊,增加证据越界风险。为此,我们提出CAGE(认知归因图),一种两阶段框架,在生成答案前引入显式的认知归因图。CAGE首先训练一个即插即用的认知图谱诱导模型,构建以答案为中心的支持子图,通过明确关系对齐每个语义答案单元与支持文档。随后,结构化引用推理模型将这些单元转化为带图对齐引用的句子级主张。在ASQA、ELI5和ExpertQA上的实验表明,CAGE达到当前最优性能,证明了归因空间压缩与图引导引用生成的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Long-form question answering increasingly relies on retrieved evidence to make LLM outputs verifiable, with inline citations tracing claims to source documents. However, existing systems often attach citations that are topically related but insufficient to support their claims. We identify attribution ambiguity as a structural challenge: end-to-end generation must implicitly resolve combinatorial claim--document assignments, obscuring evidential boundaries and increasing the risk of evidence-boundary overrun, where claims exceed cited support. To address this challenge, we propose CAGE (Cognitive Attribution Graphs for Citation Generation), a two-stage framework that introduces an explicit cognitive attribution map before answer generation. CAGE first trains a plug-and-play Cognitive Map Induction Model to construct answer-centered support subgraphs, aligning each semantic answer unit with supporting documents through explicit relations. A Structured Citation Reasoning Model then realizes these units as sentence-level claims with map-aligned citations. Experiments on ASQA, ELI5, and ExpertQA show that CAGE achieves state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating the effectiveness of attribution-space contraction and map-guided citation generation.
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