Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
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### Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents Our latest paper, ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents, targets the gap in current verification methods. The failure mode we care about is called cross-source conflation: a claim that is true somewhere in the evidence, but attributed to the wrong source. Consider a customer support agent that answers, "According to the account record, this plan includes a 30-day refund window." The r…
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- ### Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents…: ### Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents Our latest paper, ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents, targets the gap in current verification methods.
- The failure mode we care about is called cross-source conflation: a claim that is true so…: The failure mode we care about is called cross-source conflation: a claim that is true somewhere in the evidence, but attributed to the wrong source.
- Consider a customer support agent that answers, "According to the account record, this pl…: Consider a customer support agent that answers, "According to the account record, this plan includes a 30-day refund window." The refund window may be perfectly real, but stated in a policy document, not in the account record the answer poi