abstain-answers-fail-track-entity-substitutions TEC-0238 · proposedAbstain when answers fail to track entity substitutions
Replace entities in the question and evidence with type-matched synthetic names under a bijective mapping, re-ask, map the answer back, and abstain when back-mapped answers disagree with the original across sampled worlds.
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Replace entities in the question and evidence with type-matched synthetic names under a bijective mapping, re-ask, map the answer back, and abstain when back-mapped answers disagree with the original across sampled worlds. Filed by the drafting stage from Twin Worlds: Equivariance-Based Abstention for Evidence-Grounded Reasoning (2608.28018) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Four benchmarks (HotpotQA, MIRAGE, FaithEval, FEVER) x three backbones against seven abstention baselines on F1/Acc/Reliability Score/Abstention Rate; on a 200-item hard subset where self-consistency agreement >=0.8 and sufficiency score >=0.5, abstention rate 0.71 vs 0.09 and 0.11; ablation shows removing back-mapping costs 0.067-0.076 RS and using real Wikipedia entities instead of synthetic ones costs 0.103-0.115 RS; human agreement 83.5%.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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