Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 13 of 13 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2412.12632.

A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.

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measured 13 of 13 reference resolution

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Outbound references

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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This paper cites state"from the intent/question is incorrectly included in the evidencenodes,whileMissingErrorswouldhappen when essential evidence node like.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA state"from the intent/question is incorrectly included in the evidencenodes,whileMissingErrorswouldhappen when essential evidence node like

Reference 2

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This paper cites 750 7th Avenue.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA 750 7th Avenue

Reference 3

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What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 4

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This paper cites Intent":.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Intent":

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What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

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Observation d43cb1a7-f811-48d3-b000-e3d8fc03ef25 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 7

Resolution: unresolved; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-11T13:57:27.939673Z

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 9

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What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 10

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Observation a4e143d8-9498-4f91-86bf-c31d747d79ae · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Unresolved cited work

Reference 11

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Observation ac1dae49-a4a2-40e7-ba82-3217fa06c8c1 · outbound

This paper cites The corpus should serve as a comprehensive ba- sis for supporting why the [Question] has the an- swer:[Answer].

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA The corpus should serve as a comprehensive ba- sis for supporting why the [Question] has the an- swer:[Answer]

Reference 13

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Observation 4ed38a47-6e6f-4bbc-affb-d6e90fc89792 · outbound

This paper cites Rich Knowledge Sources Bring Complex Knowledge Conflicts: Recalibrating Models to Reflect Conflicting Evidence.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Rich Knowledge Sources Bring Complex Knowledge Conflicts: Recalibrating Models to Reflect Conflicting Evidence

Reference 2022

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This paper cites Bias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era.

What External Knowledge is Preferred by LLMs? Characterizing and Exploring Chain of Evidence in Imperfect Context for Multi-Hop QA Bias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era

Reference 2024

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-11T13:57:27.756707Z

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