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SAFE: An LLM-as-Verifier Framework for Evidence-Grounded Multi-Hop Reasoning
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Researchers introduced SAFE, a framework using LLMs as verifiers to check intermediate step-by-step reasoning in multi-hop QA.
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Institutional assessment
So what
Step-level verification directly addresses hallucination and hallucinated logic chains in RAG pipelines used for complex financial and legal queries.
Do what
Ask your model risk and validation team to benchmark SAFE against standard RAG evaluation techniques for auditability.