FactCorrector: A Graph-Inspired Approach to Long-Form Factuality Correction of Large Language Models
Javier Carnerero-Cano Imperial College London, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Carlos II de Madrid and International Business Machines, Massimiliano Pronesti, Radu Marinescu International Business Machines, Tigran T. Tchrakian International Business Machines, James Barry, Jasmina Gajcin International Business Machines, Yufang Hou IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Technische Universität Darmstadt and IBM Research Ireland, Alessandra Pascale International Business Machines 等 9 位作者
原文摘要
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in knowledge-intensive applications but often generate factually incorrect responses. A promising approach to rectify these flaws is correcting LLMs using feedback. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce FactCorrector, a new post-hoc correction method that adapts across domains without retraining and leverages structured feedback about the factuality of the original response to generate a correction. To support rigorous evaluations of factuality correction methods, we also develop the VELI5 benchmark, a novel dataset containing systematically injected factual errors and ground-truth corrections. Experiments on VELI5 and several popular long-form factuality datasets show that the FactCorrector approach significantly improves factual precision while preserving relevance, outperforming strong baselines. We release our code at https://ibm.biz/factcorrector.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表