Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 18 of 18 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.20408.

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Observation b9e2ddec-87fe-4873-8f32-70eb3395e640 · outbound

This paper cites Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens

Reference 1

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Observation 850f176e-b9c2-428a-8f67-9ec575b896b5 · outbound

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Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Unresolved cited work

Reference 2

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Observation 09d3bccc-3935-46ef-97e5-77b76c5ccca2 · outbound

This paper cites Collapse of Dense Retrievers: Short, Early, and Literal Biases Outranking Factual Evidence.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Collapse of Dense Retrievers: Short, Early, and Literal Biases Outranking Factual Evidence

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Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Unresolved cited work

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Observation 7c7806d2-ad60-4e1d-901c-626405f6ac5e · outbound

This paper cites Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

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This paper cites Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

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Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Unresolved cited work

Reference 7

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Observation 7e3be749-8221-4f89-ac84-3d665af6a697 · outbound

This paper cites MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

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Observation 028ce8d6-0c15-4cd9-8ae9-2ee07bd4e775 · outbound

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Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Unresolved cited work

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Observation 2e0ee678-bad3-4e4b-b341-d9225175a12d · outbound

This paper cites Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models

Reference 11

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Observation 82e9a5fe-859f-4633-8233-7cf6e8cd3888 · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4o System Card.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers GPT-4o System Card

Reference 12

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Observation 394b2f2c-ef4a-4b45-9a8f-ed1d9a272930 · outbound

This paper cites Passage Re-ranking with BERT.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Passage Re-ranking with BERT

Reference 13

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This paper cites Contrastive Learning to Improve Retrieval for Real-world Fact Checking.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Contrastive Learning to Improve Retrieval for Real-world Fact Checking

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Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites TrustRAG: Enhancing Robustness and Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers TrustRAG: Enhancing Robustness and Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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Observation 6dc4a9c9-443a-4cc7-a372-be7f1c2d2c19 · outbound

This paper cites BadRAG: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Retrieval Augmented Generation of Large Language Models.

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers BadRAG: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Retrieval Augmented Generation of Large Language Models

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This paper cites InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, and Yun-Nung Chen (Eds.).

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, and Yun-Nung Chen (Eds.)

Reference 2024

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